Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: use ktime_get_seconds() for timestamp

[David Miller]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:33:01 +0200

> commit c48f350ff5e7 "bnx2x: Add MFW dump support" added the
> bnx2x_update_mfw_dump() function that reads the current time and stores
> it in a 32-bit field that gets passed into a buffer in a fixed format.
> 
> This is potentially broken when the epoch overflows in 2038, and
> otherwise overflows in 2106. As we're trying to avoid uses of
> struct timeval for this reason, I noticed the addition of this
> function, and tried to rewrite it in a way that is more explicit
> about the overflow and that will keep working once we deprecate
> struct timeval.
> 
> I assume that it is not possible to change the ABI any more, otherwise
> we should try to use a 64-bit field for the seconds right away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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