Re: [PATCH v2 19/24] fnic: Use time64_t to represent trace timestamps

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jun 22 2016 - 10:08:15 EST


On Sunday, June 19, 2016 5:27:18 PM CEST Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> trace timestamps use struct timespec and CURRENT_TIME which
> are not y2038 safe.
> These timestamps are only part of the trace log on the machine
> and are not shared with the fnic.
> Replace then with y2038 safe struct timespec64 and
> ktime_get_real_ts64(), respectively.
>
> Note that change to add time64_to_tm() is already part of John's
> kernel tree: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/17/875 .
>

While the patch looks good, I think it can't be part of this
series now, since it has to go on top of that first patch,
rather than merged in parallel.

When you send a pull request, please leave it out and submit
this one separately after 4.8-rc1.

Arnd