Arnd, > aacraid passes the current time to the firmware in one of two ways, > either as year/month/day/... or as 32-bit unsigned seconds. > > The first one is broken on 32-bit architectures as it cannot go past > year 2038. Using timespec64 here makes it behave properly on both > 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and avoids relying on signed integer > overflow to pass times into the second interface. > > The interface used in aac_send_hosttime() however is still problematic > in year 2106 when 32-bit seconds overflow. Hopefully we don't have to > worry about aacraid by that time.
Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue. Thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
