[PATCH] rtc: mv: reset date if after year 2038

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:26:06PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dates after January, 19th 2038 are badly handled by userspace due to
> the time being stored on 32 bits. This causes issues on some Marvell
> platform on which the RTC is initialized by default to a date that's
> beyond 2038, causing a really weird behavior of the RTC.
> 
> In order to avoid that, reset the date to a sane value if the RTC is
> beyond 2038.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-mv.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>

thx,

Jason.