Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:22:36AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Well, the point is that pre hrtimer kernels did just sleep as long as
> they internaly could. So the hrtimers / ktime_t merge changed the
> userspace interface behaviour, which is breakage.
...

Ok, that's a convincing argument, your patch is the better solution.

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