On Friday 08 April 2016 08:49:14 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
Resending for inclusion in Thomas's tree.
The series contains infrastucture patches required to convert vfs times to use 64 bit time.
The intention is to include these as part of 4.6 so that the follow on patches can go into 4.7.
Patch 1 is as per the agreed upon RFC approach 2b: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/12/105 And, patch 2 is as per previously agreed upon discussion in: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/20
The patches that will use these will be posted for the subsequent kernel release.
Al: Are you ok with those? Can you ship them to Linus or shall I route them?
I guess it's too late for v4.6 now, but I've put all three patches into my y2038 tree so they get some exposure in linux-next and so we can start queuing some of the patches depending on them on top for v4.7.
I can send these on as pull requests to either of you, Thomas or Al, or I'll send them to Linus directly in the merge window if you don't want to deal with them.
Arnd