27 Apr
2018
27 Apr
'18
8:16 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
The main upside of removing the hack is that printing the tv_sec field of a timespec64 structure can now use the %lld format string on all architectures without a cast to time64_t. Without this patch, the field is a 'long' type and would have to be printed using %ld on 64-bit architectures.
As mentioned in another thread, this patch is now also a prerequisite for the cleaned up patch "[v3] x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64", which used to rely on an ugly hack to avoid a forward-declaration of 'struct timespec64', which is now allowed on 64-bit architectures after timespec64 is a structure rather than a macro now.
Arnd