Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iw: Print current time in station info dump
To:     Kirtika Ruchandani <kirtika@google.com>
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From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:49:15 -0700
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On 4/12/19 2:43 PM, Kirtika Ruchandani wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 2:40 PM <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> This lets us more precisely calculate the absolute timestamp
>> of last-rix (ie, now - idle).
> 
> Can you use 64-bit timestamps? struct timeval suffers from the
> overflow after 2038 problem.

What is the preferred API to do this?  Whatever it is, it would need
to compile on old crufty systems as well.

Thanks,
Ben

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