Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v5 2/5] vfs: Add checks for filesystem timestamp limits

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> There is one global option that I want to see, and that is for completely
>> disabling all components that are known to be broken in y2038.
>
> I really don't see the point.
>
> Don't do it. Make it some local hack, I'm not taking crazy patches.

I have the local hack , and used it to find all the drivers that use a
32-bit time_t internally (and mark them with a Kconfig dependency
for testing).

Would it be ok to have a simple way of removing the time_t definition (e.g.
by passing '-DREQUIRE_TIME64' to the compiler, but without the Kconfig
option? That way, someone who wants to ship a product can at least
find the obvious dependencies on stuff that remains broken.

       Arnd