[PATCH v3 4/5] rtc: mt6397: Remove start time parameters

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com
Fri Apr 11 06:36:09 PDT 2025


On 11/04/2025 14:35:57+0200, Alexandre Mergnat wrote:
> The start time parameters is currently hardcoded to the driver, but
> it may not fit with all equivalent RTC that driver is able to support.
> 
> Remove the start_secs and set_start_time value setup because it
> will be handled by the rtc_device_get_offset function using the
> start-year DTS property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat at baylibre.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> index 692c00ff544b2..d47626d47602f 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> @@ -291,8 +291,6 @@ static int mtk_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	rtc->rtc_dev->ops = &mtk_rtc_ops;
>  	rtc->rtc_dev->range_min = RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_1900;
>  	rtc->rtc_dev->range_max = mktime64(2027, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59);
> -	rtc->rtc_dev->start_secs = mktime64(1968, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0);
> -	rtc->rtc_dev->set_start_time = true;
>  

This is going to break the time for people upgrading their kernel, you
are unfortunately stuck with this.

>  	return devm_rtc_register_device(rtc->rtc_dev);
>  }
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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