Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 07/11] time: Convert alarm_set_rtc() to use timespec64

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, pang.xunlei wrote:
> +/*
> +* TODO: [2038 safety] alarm_do_ioctl() should be fixed to use timespec64,
> +*  once timespec64 is promoted to userspace.

Nonsense. You CANNOT 'FIX' this. The ioctl needs to stay as is because
you need to preserve the user space ABI.

It needs a new ioctl variant which handles timespec64.

Thanks,

        tglx


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