On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:10:05 AM CEST Deepa Dinamani wrote: >> struct timeval is not y2038 safe. >> All references to timeval will be deleted from the >> kernel to make it y2038 safe. >> Replace its uses by y2038 safe struct timespec64. >> >> The timestamps changed here only keep track of delta >> times. These timestamps are also internal to kernel. >> Hence, monotonic times are sufficient here. >> The unit of the delta times is also changed in certain >> cases to nanoseconds rather than microseconds. This is >> in line with timespec64 which keeps time in nanoseconds. >> >> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]> >> > > Looks all correct to me, > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > > I think it could be done a little nicer using ktime_get() > instead of ktime_get_ts64(), but probably nobody cares with > this driver.
I tried to keep the processing same as timeval. This could be changed to ktime_get() if that is preferred. -Deepa
