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)
commitb3495cecb24c8e38e1b0c569c69c983b6a2d6d9c
treefa25d10f1f26cb6cadf60eb8b809b134009a6102
parentd09ac610eaaa0b3b29c3ac6c4e107cb1dbd4a356
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 a80b83b7b8 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