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Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1
- From: Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali dot nl>
- To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>
- Cc: y2038 at lists dot linaro dot org, baolin dot wang at linaro dot org, tglx at linutronix dot de, albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr, john dot stultz at linaro dot org, bamvor dot zhangjian at linaro dot org, ruchandani dot tina at gmail dot com, linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 11:24:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1
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On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:52 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2015 09:39:18 Paul Bolle wrote:
> I realize the downsides of not posting the entire series at once
> here, but it seemed better to avoid spamming everyone too much,
> while I try to find out if we have agreement on the overall
> strategy.
That downside is worse when people only quickly skim your message for
clues while thinking about the problem they _think_ they've spotted
(like I did).
> For reference, see below for the ARM patch.
> > And then it occurred to me to check the y2038-syscalls git branch you
> > referenced. After which the above made much more sense. (Though my
> > remark that ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME simply functions as an alias for COMPAT
> > also seems to hold for that branch.)
>
> Right, in fact both of these happen at the end of the git tree.
Still, you might consider making ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME a plain bool and
adding "select ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME" to the eight or so COMPAT entries.
But, clearly, I'm now wasting even more of your time by trying to save
face here.
Thanks,
Paul Bolle