On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The series is aimed at making input events y2038 safe. > It extends the lifetime of the realtime timestamps in the > events to year 2106. > The series is also a necessary update as glibc is set to provide > 64 bit time_t support for 32 bit binaries. glibc plan is detailed > at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign . > > The series is a result of discussions with Arnd Bergmann and > Dmitry Torokhov at last Plumbers. > > The plan is to deprecate realtime timestamps anyway as they > are not appropriate for these timestamps as noted in the patch > a80b83b7b8 by John Stultz. > > The design also updates the format of the input events read/ written > to the device nodes. This breaks 32 bit interface to the input > events at compile time as preferred by the maintainer. > > The userspace library changes to libevdev, libuinput and mtdev > will be posted to the respective mailing groups for review. Thanks a lot for following up on this! Just to clarify, the four patches are all independent of one another and can be applied in any order, right? I had some comments for some patches, and I don't want to hold up the other ones from getting merged this time. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
