Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers

[Richard Cochran]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:11:21PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Once we agree on a solution to the Y2038 issue on 32bit with a unified
> 32/64 bit syscall interface which simply gets rid of the timespec/val
> nonsense and takes a simple u64 nsec value we can add the slack
> property to that without any further inconvenience.

Can you expand on this tangent a bit?

Who needs to agree, and where is this being debated?

Thanks,
Richard
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