On Tue 2017-06-20 13:37:22, Steve Twiss wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > On 20 June 2017 14:26, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/51] rtc: stop using rtc deprecated functions > > > > On Tue 2017-06-20 14:24:00, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > > On 20/06/2017 at 14:10:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > On Tue 2017-06-20 12:03:48, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > > > > On 20/06/2017 at 11:35:08 +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > > > > > > rtc_time_to_tm() and rtc_tm_to_time() are deprecated because they > > > > > > rely on 32bits variables and that will make rtc break in y2038/2016. > > > > > > > > > > Please don't, because this hide the fact that the hardware will not > > > > > handle dates in y2038 anyway and as pointed by Russell a few month ago, > > > > > rtc_time_to_tm will be able to catch it but the 64 bit version will > > > > > silently ignore it. > > > > > > > > Reference? Because rtc on PCs stores date in binary coded decimal, so > > > > it is likely to break in 2100, not 2038... > > > > > > I'm not saying it should be done but clearly, that is not the correct > > > thing to do for RTCs that are using a single 32 bits register to store > > > the time. > > > You give one example, I can give you three: armada38x, at91sam9, > > > at32ap700x and that just in the beginning of the series. > > > > I wanted reference to Russell's mail. > > This is it. > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6219401/ Thanks. Yes, that's argument against changing rtc _drivers_ for hardware that can not do better than 32bit. For generic code (such as 44/51 sysfs, 51/51 suspend test), the change still makes sense. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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