Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/3] drivers/rtc/sunxi: Replace deprecated rtc_tm_to_time()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 29 May 2015 23:04:37 Xunlei Pang wrote:
>         }
>  
> -       rtc_tm_to_time(alrm_tm, &time_set);
> -       rtc_tm_to_time(&tm_now, &time_now);
> +       time_set = rtc_tm_to_time64(alrm_tm);
> +       time_now = rtc_tm_to_time64(&tm_now);
>         if (time_set <= time_now) {
>                 dev_err(dev, "Date to set in the past\n");
>                 return -EINVAL;
>         }
>  
> +       if (time_set > time_now + 255 * SEC_IN_DAY) {
> +               dev_err(dev, "Day must be in the range 0 - 255\n");
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }
> +
> 

So this driver also uses the two values just to do a comparison
and to take the difference in seconds.

If we have a helper function that returns the difference between
two rtc_tm values as a time64_t, we can use that for both
this driver and isl1208.

	Arnd
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