re: Using of struct tm in kernel module

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

> The kernel can schedule an event at arbitrary times in the future, and
> those can be represented as timespec, timeval or even plain seconds.

only true as long as "arbitrary" can fit into a 32-bit signed
count in ticks.  ie, 248 days with HZ=100, etc.

with HZ=1000, that's almost 25 days.  i hear today about the
being something fixed with HZ=4096, which is only 6 days.

i recommend avoiding any kernel timeouts longer than a day.


.mrg.