Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934073AbaJ3OwN (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:52:13 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:35731 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933696AbaJ3OwK (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:52:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:52:07 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: "pang.xunlei" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, John Stultz , Alessandro Zummo , Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/11] time: Convert alarm_set_rtc() to use timespec64 In-Reply-To: <1414667745-7703-8-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@linaro.org> Message-ID: References: <1414667745-7703-1-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@linaro.org> <1414667745-7703-8-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, pang.xunlei wrote: > +/* > +* TODO: [2038 safety] alarm_do_ioctl() should be fixed to use timespec64, > +* once timespec64 is promoted to userspace. Nonsense. You CANNOT 'FIX' this. The ioctl needs to stay as is because you need to preserve the user space ABI. It needs a new ioctl variant which handles timespec64. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/