Re: [PATCH] RTC: DaVinci RTC driver

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:08:33 -0800
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> wrote:

> +static int convertfromdays(u16 days, struct rtc_time *tm)
> +{
> +	int tmp_days, year, mon;
> +
> +	for (year = 2000;; year++) {
> +		tmp_days = rtc_year_days(1, 12, year);
> +		if (days >= tmp_days)
> +			days -= tmp_days;
> +		else {
> +			for (mon = 0;; mon++) {
> +				tmp_days = rtc_month_days(mon, year);
> +				if (days >= tmp_days) {
> +					days -= tmp_days;
> +				} else {
> +					tm->tm_year = year - 1900;
> +					tm->tm_mon = mon;
> +					tm->tm_mday = days + 1;
> +					break;
> +				}
> +			}
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int convert2days(u16 *days, struct rtc_time *tm)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	*days = 0;
> +
> +	/* epoch == 1900 */
> +	if (tm->tm_year < 100 || tm->tm_year > 199)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	for (i = 2000; i < 1900 + tm->tm_year; i++)
> +		*days += rtc_year_days(1, 12, i);
> +
> +	*days += rtc_year_days(tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon, 1900 + tm->tm_year);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

I'm looking suspiciously at these (slow-looking) functions.  Are they
really specific to this device, or could we be making better use of
library code, or adding functionality to library code?