Re: [PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr

[Oliver Neukum]

On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 11:50 +0530, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code 
> currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr, 
> which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond.
> This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is 
> y2038 safe.

Hi,

but the timestamp will also overflow. So what is the point?

	Regards
		Oliver


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