From: joshc@codeaurora.org (Josh Cartwright)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: mv: reset date if after year 2038
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:11:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140218191111.GH31116@joshc.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392729966-25394-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:26:06PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dates after January, 19th 2038 are badly handled by userspace due to
> the time being stored on 32 bits. This causes issues on some Marvell
> platform on which the RTC is initialized by default to a date that's
> beyond 2038, causing a really weird behavior of the RTC.
>
> In order to avoid that, reset the date to a sane value if the RTC is
> beyond 2038.
Just so I better understand: is this really a problem that is unique to
this particular RTC? It smells a bit like we're papering over a problem
that may exist for other RTCs as well, and if so, is better solved in
the core.
Thanks,
Josh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-18 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 13:26 [PATCH] rtc: mv: reset date if after year 2038 Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-18 13:34 ` Baruch Siach
2014-02-18 14:04 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-18 14:15 ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-18 14:16 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-18 14:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-18 14:58 ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-18 19:11 ` Josh Cartwright [this message]
2014-02-18 23:14 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-19 16:50 ` Josh Cartwright
2014-02-21 23:41 ` Jason Cooper
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