From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:02:37 -0700 Received: from u-53.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.20.53]:3846 "EHLO u-53.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:02:06 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:28:53 +0200 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:28:53 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, SGI-MIPS List Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0-test8: Alpha RTC clean-ups Message-ID: <20000925182853.B9730@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20000922232950.A25561@lug-owl.de> <20000925125006.B28011@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000925125006.B28011@lug-owl.de>; from jbglaw@lug-owl.de on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:50:06PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:50:06PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:35:35AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > > > Instead of having hard-coded values, we should maybe do something > > > more variable like: > > > if (year >= (20 + YEARS_SINCE_2000) && year < (48 + YEARS_SINCE_2000) > > > ... > > > > This looks reasonable. > > > > > This applies to other platforms using different epoch vaules as > > > well, of course... > > > > Alpha appears to be the only one. > > ./driver/char/rtc.c:rtc_init() > #if defined(__alpha__) || defined(__mips__) > [...] > > MIPS does that as well _in the wrong way_ compared to rtc.c: > ./arch/mips/dev/time.c:time_init() > /* > * The DECstation RTC is used as a TOY (Time Of Year). > * The PROM will reset the year to either '70, '71 or '72. > * This hack will only work until Dec 31 2001. > */ > year += 1928; This has already been fixed. In any case the DECstation RTC stuff is so weird, don't try to explain it rationally ... > Fehler eingestehen, Größe zeigen: Nehmt die Rechtschreibreform zurück!!! Rechtschreibdeformation ... Ralf