can: avoid using timeval for uapi
The can subsystem communicates with user space using a bcm_msg_head header, which contains two timestamps. This is problematic for multiple reasons: a) The structure layout is currently incompatible between 64-bit user space and 32-bit user space, and cannot work in compat mode (other than x32). b) The timeval structure layout will change in 32-bit user space when we fix the y2038 overflow problem by redefining time_t to 64-bit, making new 32-bit user space incompatible with the current kernel interface. Cars last a long time and often use old kernels, so the actual users of this code are the most likely ones to migrate to y2038 safe user space. This tries to work around part of the problem by changing the publicly visible user interface in the header, but not the binary interface. Fortunately, the values passed around in the structure are relative times and do not actually suffer from the y2038 overflow, so 32-bit is enough here. We replace th...
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