From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752369Ab3LSPAl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:00:41 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60578 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332Ab3LSPAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:00:39 -0500 Message-ID: <52B309EB.90300@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:59:55 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Lee, Chun-Yi" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alessandro Zummo , Matt Fleming , Matthew Garrett CC: Elliott@hp.com, samer.el-haj-mahmoud@hp.com, Oliver Neukum , werner@suse.com, trenn@suse.de, JBeulich@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, x86@kernel.org, "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME References: <1387439053-8711-1-git-send-email-jlee@suse.com> In-Reply-To: <1387439053-8711-1-git-send-email-jlee@suse.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/18/2013 11:43 PM, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: > This patchset add the timezone support of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME, it > also add codes for adjusting system time base on the timezone value > from EFI TIME services when system boot. EFI time is something we used to support and ripped out, because it doesn't work well, *at all*. I am hyper-skeptical to reintroducing them, and *definitely* will veto reintroducing them on a system which has PNP0B0x devices present. -hpa