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To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:20:58 -0400
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>>>>> "Tina" == Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> writes:

Tina> 'struct timeval' will have its tv_sec value overflow on 32-bit
Tina> systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use of
Tina> struct timeval for computing mpi_request.TimeStamp, and instead
Tina> uses ktime_t which provides 64-bit seconds value. The timestamp
Tina> computed remains unaffected (milliseconds since Unix epoch).

Applied to 4.7/scsi-queue.

Thank you!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering