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Input: uinput - use monotonic times for timestamps
authorDeepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 06:27:11 +0000 (22:27 -0800)
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 06:54:42 +0000 (22:54 -0800)
commitf9c2d9f8b51c52261e7b728a21869e19f2aac6bf
treefa25d10f1f26cb6cadf60eb8b809b134009a6102
parentad83329b4e7d18893da00b146330552a349ddd51
Input: uinput - use monotonic times for timestamps

struct timeval which is part of struct input_event to maintain the event
times is not y2038 safe.

Real time timestamps are also not ideal for input_event as this time can go
backwards as noted in the patch c20ba429e1 by John Stultz.

The patch switches the timestamps to use monotonic time from realtime time.
This is assuming no one is using absolute times from these timestamps.

The structure to maintain input events will be changed in a different
patch.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Patchwork-Id: 10118255
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
drivers/input/misc/uinput.c