Re: [PATCH] [media] rc-core: Remove 'struct timeval' usage

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 11:11:42 EST


On Thursday 29 October 2015 00:16:57 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> streamzap uses 'struct timeval' to store the start time of a signal for
> gap tracking. struct timeval uses a 32-bit seconds representation which
> will overflow in year 2038 and beyond. Replace struct timeval with ktime_t
> which uses a 64-bit seconds representation and is 2038 safe. This patch
> uses ktime_get_real() preserving the use of wall-clock time in the
> original code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

I've applied it to my y2038 tree for the moment, so I won't forget
about it, but it would be nice if Mauro could pick it up as well and let
me drop it from my tree.

Arnd
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