[PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] jffs2: use 64-bit intermediate timestamps

[boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Brezillon)]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:47:13 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2018, 16:47:16 CEST schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > The VFS now uses timespec64 timestamps consistently, but jffs2 still
> > converts them to 32-bit numbers on the storage medium. As the helper
> > functions for the conversion (get_seconds() and timespec_to_timespec64())
> > are now deprecated, let's change them over to the more modern
> > replacements.
> > 
> > This keeps the traditional interpretation of those values, where
> > the on-disk 32-bit numbers are taken to be negative numbers, i.e.
> > dates before 1970, on 32-bit machines, but future numbers past 2038
> > on 64-bit machines.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > ---
> > I originally sent these two patches on Jun 19, but got no reply aside
> > from a harmless sparse warning reported by the kbuild test robot.
> > 
> > Looking at the git history for jffs2, it seems that David Woodhouse
> > hasn't applied any patches for over two years, so I suppose he's
> > not taking these either.
> > 
> > Al or Andrew, could you pick these up instead?  
> 
> We can carry it also via the MTD tree.

I'll queue them to mtd/next.

Thanks,

Boris