On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Deepa Dinamani [off-list ref] wrote:

The series is aimed at making input events y2038 safe.
It extends the lifetime of the realtime timestamps in the
events to year 2106.
The series is also a necessary update as glibc is set to provide
64 bit time_t support for 32 bit binaries. glibc plan is detailed
at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign .

The series is a result of discussions with Arnd Bergmann and
Dmitry Torokhov at last Plumbers.

The plan is to deprecate realtime timestamps anyway as they
are not appropriate for these timestamps as noted in the patch
a80b83b7b8 by John Stultz.

The design also updates the format of the input events read/ written
to the device nodes. This breaks 32 bit interface to the input
events at compile time as preferred by the maintainer.

The userspace library changes to libevdev, libuinput and mtdev
will be posted to the respective mailing groups for review.

Thanks a lot for following up on this!

Just to clarify, the four patches are all independent of one another
and can be applied in any order, right? I had some comments
for some patches, and I don't want to hold up the other ones
from getting merged this time.

      Arnd