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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Fix year 2038 issue for sound subsystem
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>, tiwai@suse.com, arnd@arndb.de
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From:   Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
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Dne 24.4.2018 v 14:06 Baolin Wang napsal(a):
> Since many structures will use timespec type variables to record time stamp
> in uapi/asound.h, which are not year 2038 safe on 32bit system. This patchset
> tries to introduce new structures removing timespec type to compatible native
> mode and compat mode.
> 
> Moreover this patchset also converts the internal structrures to use timespec64
> type and related APIs.

Thanks for your patchset. A few comments:

It might be more nice to reuse the existing structures and put
timespec64 to the reserved field and duplicate information (with the
32-bit wrapping for the old fields). It means that we do not need new
ioctls and old libraries will be fine.

It may make sense to define private snd_timespec32 and snd_timespec64
with s32/s64 types instead separate sec/usec fields.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.