Re: [PATCH] [RFC] y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 12:16:50 EST


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:11:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I don't think it makes a big difference whether we change it now or later,
>> but if Christoph feels that it addresses his concern about the compat_
>> namespace being reused during the transition, doing it earlier would
>> enable us to finish the remaining syscalls.
>
> Yes, I've been looking at your new series and the reuse of compat_*
> is really confusing

Ok, let's do that then. Do you think it's sufficient to change it on top
of the existing patch series? While I can rebase everything on top of
the rename, the header file dependencies are a bit tricky and adding
a patch at the end would make it easier to ensure that I don't
introduce any bisection issues.

Arnd