Re: [PATCH] aacraid: use timespec64 instead of timeval

[Martin K. Petersen]

Arnd,

> aacraid passes the current time to the firmware in one of two ways,
> either as year/month/day/... or as 32-bit unsigned seconds.
>
> The first one is broken on 32-bit architectures as it cannot go past
> year 2038. Using timespec64 here makes it behave properly on both
> 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and avoids relying on signed integer
> overflow to pass times into the second interface.
>
> The interface used in aac_send_hosttime() however is still problematic
> in year 2106 when 32-bit seconds overflow. Hopefully we don't have to
> worry about aacraid by that time.

Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering