Re: [PATCH 15/21] time: Add time64_to_tm()

From: John Stultz
Date: Fri Jun 17 2016 - 16:52:12 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:18 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> time_to_tm() takes time_t as an argument.
>>> time_t is not y2038 safe.
>>> Add time64_to_tm() that takes time64_t as an argument
>>> which is y2038 safe.
>>> The plan is to eventually replace all calls to time_to_tm()
>>> by time64_to_tm().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This looks sane to me. Are you hoping for me to queue this, or would
>> you like i to go though the fsdev maintainers with my ack?
>>
>> In either case.
>>
>> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is only used by the scsi fnic driver.
> I will separate these 2 patches from this CURRENT_TIME series and
> then both the patches can be merged through the respective trees.

Sorry, this was not quite clear. I've gone ahead and queued this one
patch for testing, but let me know and I'll drop it if its going
through a different tree.

thanks
-john