On Wednesday 24 February 2016 23:07:08 Deepa Dinamani wrote:

ICMP timestamp messages and IP source route options require
timestamps to be in milliseconds modulo 24 hours from
midnight UTC format.

Add a time function to support this. The function returns the
required timestamp in network byte order.

The function also uses y2038 safe time functions and data
structures.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <redacted>

For the implementation:

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

For where to put the code, I have no better idea, but I agree
with Hideaki Yoshifuji that it's a bit odd to place it in
kernel/*.c when it's only used by net/ipv4.

	Arnd