Re: [PATCH 01/12] Ext4: Fix extended timestamp encoding and decoding

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 24 2015 - 15:11:14 EST


On Tuesday 24 November 2015 14:36:46 Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> This is the patch I would prefer to use (and in fact which I have
> added to the ext4 tree):
>
> There are issues with 32-bit vs 64-bit encoding of times before
> January 1, 1970, which are handled with this patch which is not
> handled with what you have in your patch series. So I'd prefer if you
> drop this patch, and I'll get this sent to Linus as a bug fix for 4.4.

I'm happy with either one. Apparently both Davids have arrived with
almost the same algorithm and implementation, with the exception of
the pre-1970 handling you mention there.

Arnd
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