On 19/05/15 07:08, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
struct timeval uses a 32-bit field for representing seconds, which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces struct timeval with 64-bit ktime_t which is 2038 safe. The patch is part of a larger effort to remove instances of 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, time_t and timespec) from the kernel.
Applied to for-linus-4.2, thanks.
"This patch" is a bit redundant in a commit message so I tweaked it to read:
struct timeval uses a 32-bit field for representing seconds, which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. Replace struct timeval with 64-bit ktime_t which is 2038 safe. This is part of a larger effort to remove instances of 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, time_t and timespec) from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani ruchandani.tina@gmail.com Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --
Use 3 hyphens as a separator here.
Changes in v2:
David