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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] rtc: Convert rtc_class_ops.set_mmss() to use time64_t
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:05:34 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1411280003020.3961@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417089760-26848-3-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@linaro.org>

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> -static int coh901331_set_mmss(struct device *dev, unsigned long secs)
> +static int coh901331_set_mmss(struct device *dev, time64_t secs)
>  {
>  	struct coh901331_port *rtap = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>  
>  	clk_enable(rtap->clk);
> +	/*
> +	 * y2106 issue:
> +	 *   On 32bit systems the time64_t secs value gets cast to
> +	 *   a 32bit long, and thus we can only write a maximum value
> +	 *   of y2016

That really makes a lot of sense. Before that patch the driver was
safe up to 2038. Now it is facing the y2016 problem.

> +	/*
> +	 * y2106 issue:
> +	 *   On 32bit systems the time64_t secs value gets cast to
> +	 *   a 32bit long, and thus we can only write a maximum value
> +	 *   of y2016

Copy and paste is wonderful, right?

Sigh,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-27 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-27 12:02 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add rtc 64bit epoch offset for rtc hardware that only provides 32bit time Xunlei Pang
2014-11-27 12:02 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] rtc/mxc: Convert get_alarm_or_time()/set_alarm_or_time() to use time64_t Xunlei Pang
2014-11-27 23:02   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-27 23:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-28 15:58       ` pang.xunlei
2014-11-27 12:02 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] rtc: Convert rtc_class_ops.set_mmss() " Xunlei Pang
2014-11-27 23:05   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2014-11-27 23:23     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-27 23:28       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-28 16:49   ` pang.xunlei
2014-11-27 12:02 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] rtc/lib: Provide interfaces to map between 32bit hardware and 64bit time Xunlei Pang
2014-11-27 23:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-28 16:10     ` pang.xunlei
2014-12-01 21:12       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-27 12:02 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] rtc/imxdi: Update driver to address time issues Xunlei Pang
2014-11-27 23:24   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-28 16:20     ` pang.xunlei
2014-12-01  0:13       ` Alessandro Zummo

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