Re: wlcore: use boottime for fw time sync

[Kalle Valo]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Using getnstimeofday()/timespec_to_ns() causes an overflow on 32-bit
> architectures in 2038, and may suffer from time jumps due to
> settimeofday() or leap seconds.
> 
> I don't see a reason why this needs to be UTC, so either monotonic
> or boot time would be better here. Assuming that the fw time keeps
> running during suspend, boottime is better than monotonic, and
> ktime_get_boot_ns() will also save the additional conversion to
> nanoseconds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

99f6996d4cba wlcore: use boottime for fw time sync

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