Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations

2017-11-20 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Arnd, > twl_aen_queue_event/twa_aen_queue_event, we use do_gettimeofday() > to read the lower 32 bits of the current time in seconds, to pass > them to the TW_IOCTL_GET_NEXT_EVENT ioctl or the 3ware_aen_read > sysfs file. > > This will overflow on all architectures in year 2106, there is > not mu

Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations

2017-11-10 Thread adam radford
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > twl_aen_queue_event/twa_aen_queue_event, we use do_gettimeofday() > to read the lower 32 bits of the current time in seconds, to pass > them to the TW_IOCTL_GET_NEXT_EVENT ioctl or the 3ware_aen_read > sysfs file. > > This will overflow on al

[PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations

2017-11-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
twl_aen_queue_event/twa_aen_queue_event, we use do_gettimeofday() to read the lower 32 bits of the current time in seconds, to pass them to the TW_IOCTL_GET_NEXT_EVENT ioctl or the 3ware_aen_read sysfs file. This will overflow on all architectures in year 2106, there is not much we can do about th