Arnd, > do_gettimeofday() is deprecated since it will stop working in 2038 on > 32-bit platforms, leading to incorrect times passed to the firmware. > On 64-bit platforms the current code appears to be fine, as the > calculation passes an 8-bit century number into the firmware that can > represent times long in the future (possibly until 25599). > > Using ktime_get_real_seconds() to get a 64-bit seconds value and > time64_to_tm() to convert it into the firmware format greatly > simplifies the ips timekeeping code, makes 32-bit and 64-bit behave > the same way here, and gets us closer to removing the deprecated > interfaces.
Applied to 4.18/scsi-queue, thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
