Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v2] vfs: Add support to check max and min inode times

On Wednesday 02 March 2016 23:50:01 Deepa Dinamani wrote:

•   /*
  

•    * Assign a default empty range [MAX_VFS_TIME, MIN_VFS_TIME].
  

•    * This will help VFS detect filesystems that do not populate
  

•    * these fields in the superblock.
  

•    */
  

•   s->s_time_min = MAX_VFS_TIME;
  

•   s->s_time_max = MIN_VFS_TIME;
    s->cleancache_poolid = CLEANCACHE_NO_POOL;
  

I think this is still less clear than it should be, even with the comment explaining it.

As I just replied to Dave, how about initializing both to -1 instead?

Arnd