On Monday, August 15, 2016 6:23:12 PM CEST Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:48:12PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > > The series is aimed at getting rid of CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros. > > The macros are not y2038 safe. There is no plan to transition them into being > > y2038 safe. > > ktime_get_* api's can be used in their place. And, these are y2038 safe. > > Who are you execting to pull this huge patch series? Dave Chinner suggested to have Al Viro pick up the whole series. > Why not just introduce the new api call, wait for that to be merged, and > then push the individual patches through the different subsystems? > After half of those get ignored, then provide a single set of patches > that can go through Andrew or my trees. That was the original approach for v4.7, but (along with requesting a number of reworks that Deepa incorporated), Linus preferred doing the API change done in one chunk, see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9134249/ Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
