From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755975Ab2GaSWq (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:22:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50120 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755915Ab2GaSWo (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: <501818C0.1040605@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:41:20 -0400 From: Prarit Bhargava User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110419 Red Hat/3.1.10-1.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: linux-kernel , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Zhouping Liu , CAI Qian Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Better handling of insane CMOS values References: <1343716548-38742-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1343716548-38742-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/31/2012 02:35 AM, John Stultz wrote: > So CAI Qian noticed recent boot trouble on a machine that had its CMOS > clock configured for the year 8200. > See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/29/188 In case anyone was wondering, the system's date was very much screwed up: │ System Time .......................................... 13:39:40 │ │ System Date .......................................... Tue Jul 31, 8212 After testing these patches I set the year to 2012. P.