Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/2] rtc: rv8803 patches

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Hello Alexandre,

On 23.11.2022 10:55:25, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> This series has the remainder of
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426071056.1187235-1-s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> which was partly applied.
> 
> Alexandre,
> 
> Last time this series was send you asked if this series fixes a problem
> we've really seen to which Ahmad answered:
> 
> > The kernel message
> > 
> >   rtc rtc0: invalid alarm value: 2020-3-27 7:82:0
> > 
> > listed in the commit message is something I actually ran into. There
> > was no v2f set then. The customer has also variously observed bit flips
> > independently of v2f: During EMC testing, electrostatic discharge at developer
> > desks and even in the field: Suspected causes were lightning strikes in the
> > vicinity and the switching of larger inductive loads.
> > They're very paranoid of logging invalid timestamps, so we'll keep the patch
> > anyhow at our side, but I think it is generally useful as well: If we can't
> > set an invalid alarm time by normal means, but read back an invalid time,
> > something may have corrupted other memory, so treating it as a v2f is sensible.
> 
> There was no answer to this. I would be glad if you could take this
> series. I would understand though if you say that this problem is too
> esoteric to fix it upstream, we would keep the patches locally then.
> Please just say so, it would help me to get the problem from my desk
> ;)

Can someone take this patch series? If not, what can we do to get these
changes upstream?

regards,
Marc

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