Re: [PATCH 6/7] time: move old timekeeping interfaces to timekeeping32.h
From: John Stultz
Date: Tue Oct 24 2017 - 15:57:50 EST
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The interfaces based on 'struct timespec' and 'unsigned long' seconds
> are no longer recommended for new code, and we are trying to migrate to
> ktime_t based interfaces and other y2038-safe variants.
>
> This moves all the legacy interfaces from linux/timekeeping.h into a
> new timekeeping32.h to better document this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Just as a heads up, trying to apply these for testing (initially
against 4.14-rc3, but also -rc6) and I'm running into fuzz issues from
this patch on.
patch seems to resolve it, but not sure exactly what it was based on,
and wanted to make sure I'm not doing something daft.
thanks
-john