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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Fri Feb 21 18:41:48 EST 2014


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(+)

Applied to mvebu/drivers with Baruch's grammar fix.

thx,

Jason.



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