On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
> overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at
> all, but instead uses microseconds and is passed as 32-bit
> on all machines.
>
> This patch changes
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:15:20AM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:57:31AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
> > > overflow problem. T
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:57:31AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
> > overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at
> > all, but instead uses microsecon
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
> overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at
> all, but instead uses microseconds and is passed as 32-bit
> on all machines.
>
> This patch changes
We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at
all, but instead uses microseconds and is passed as 32-bit
on all machines.
This patch changes the type to u32, which better fits the use.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
