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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:27:07 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] timex: use __kernel_timex internally
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:46PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> struct timex is not y2038 safe.
> Replace all uses of timex with y2038 safe __kernel_timex.
> 
> Note that struct __kernel_timex is an ABI interface definition.

If it actually is an ABI interface it should probably have a different
name.