[rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH v2] efi: rtc-efi: use correct EFI 'epoch'

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>]

On 09/06/2015 at 11:15:35 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote :
> The rtc-efi driver declares that the EFI 'epoch' is 1/1/1998, but
> the UEFI spec does not define it at all. It does define a range of
> [1900, 9999] for the 'Year' member of the EFI_TIME struct, so let's
> use 1900 as the minimum year and not 1998.
> Also, move the validation of the year to the convert_from_efi_time()
> routine where all other EFI_TIME fields are validated as well.
> 
> This prevents rtc_read_time() failures when the RTC that backs the
> EFI time services is set to a date before 1998, e.g., when it has
> lost power.
> 
> This also optimizes the compute_wday() routine, by replacing the for
> loop with a simple arithmetic expression, and by reusing the yearday
> value that we need to compute anyway when populating the
> rtc_time::tm_yday field.
> 
> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

Applied, thanks.


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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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