On Wednesday 24 February 2016 23:07:08 Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> ICMP timestamp messages and IP source route options require
> timestamps to be in milliseconds modulo 24 hours from
> midnight UTC format.
>
> Add a time function to support this. The function returns the
> required timestamp in network byte order.
>
> The function also uses y2038 safe time functions and data
> structures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.ker...@gmail.com>
>
For the implementation:
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
For where to put the code, I have no better idea, but I agree
with Hideaki Yoshifuji that it's a bit odd to place it in
kernel/*.c when it's only used by net/ipv4.
Arnd
