RE: [PATCH] aacraid: use timespec64 instead of timeval

[Dave Carroll]

> 
> aacraid passes the current time to the firmware in one of two ways,
> either as year/month/day/... or as 32-bit unsigned seconds.
> 
> The first one is broken on 32-bit architectures as it cannot
> go past year 2038. Using timespec64 here makes it behave properly
> on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and avoids relying
> on signed integer overflow to pass times into the second interface.
> 
> The interface used in aac_send_hosttime() however is still
> problematic in year 2106 when 32-bit seconds overflow. Hopefully
> we don't have to worry about aacraid by that time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Dave Carroll <david.carroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>