Hi Alexandre, On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:30 PM Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is no point in resetting the time to epoch as this means that > userspace will never get the valuable information that time is actually > invalid. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your patch! Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Impact before/after (cold boot): -sh-rtc fcff1000.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC (0) +sh-rtc fcff1000.rtc: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock After warm boot (Linux reboot command): sh-rtc fcff1000.rtc: setting system clock to 2019-03-21T08:47:54 UTC (1553158074) After reset (reset switch): sh-rtc fcff1000.rtc: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds