On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> There is only one user of the hardpps function in the kernel, so
> it makes sense to atomically change it over to using 64-bit
> timestamps for y2038 safety. In the hardpps implementation,
> we also need to change the pps_normtime structure, which is
> similar to struct timespec and also requires a 64-bit
> seconds portion.
> 
> This introduces two temporary variables in pps_kc_event() to
> do the conversion, they will be removed again in the next step,
> which seemed preferable to having a larger patch changing it
> all at the same time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
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