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

From: Deepa Dinamani
Date: Fri Jun 17 2016 - 16:59:14 EST


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:52 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Ok.This works too.

Thanks,
Deepa