Hi, I would have liked to be in copy of that mail. Maybe you used get_maintainers on an old tree?
On 02/12/2015 at 17:53:04 -0800, Julius Werner wrote : > In Fuzhou, China, the month of November seems to be having 31 days. > That's nice and all (I'm sure you can get a lot more done in a year that > way), but back here in other parts of the world we are not so lucky. > Therefore, if we read that date from the RTC we should correct it to > December 1st. > Wow, nice one... I hope reading the time properly fails thanks to the rtc_valid_tm(tm) in __rtc_read_time(). > This is not a full workaround. Since the RTC actually ticks all the way > through that imaginary day, there's no easy way to detect and correct > this issue if the device was offline the whole time and allowed it to > tick through to December 1st on the Rockchip calendar (which would be > December 2nd on the Gregorian one). Those edge cases can only really be > solved by regularly syncing to an external time source (e.g. NTP). > It will also happen if nobody reads the RTC time for that day (highly improbable in a default configuration). Do you need that patch for 4.4 or can it wait 4.5? > Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwer...@chromium.org> > Reviewed-by: Chris Zhong <z...@rock-chips.com> > --- > drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c | 93 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) > -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
