Re: [PATCH 2/4] rtc: s3c: Add time range

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 21/10/2021 22:48:51+0300, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> After testing thoroughly, I can confirm that Alexandre is right about
> leap years (Exynos850 RTC treats both 2000 and 2100 as leap years).
> And it also overflows internally on 2159 year, limiting the actual
> time range at 160 years. So I'll keep that range at 100 years for all
> RTCs. As Krzysztof said, there is no practical reasons in trying to
> increase it anyway. Will send v2 soon.
> 
> What I'm curious about is RTC testing. I've found this test suite:
> 
>     tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c
> 
> But it doesn't seem to cover corner cases (like checking leap years,
> which was discussed here). Just a thought: maybe it should be added
> there, so everyone can benefit from that? For example, I know that in
> Linaro we are running LKFT tests for different boards, so that might
> theoretically reveal some bugs. Though I understand possible
> implications: we probably don't know which ranges are supported in
> driver that's being tested. Anyway, just saying.
> 

Sorry, I should have pointed to:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/rtc-tools.git/tree/rtc-range.c

This does check for the actual range of an RTC.


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