[PATCH 4/6] rtc: st-lpc: remove artificial limitation

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Mar 19 2018 - 19:49:04 EST


The LPC RTC supports dates way beyond 2038, don't limit it artificially as
the kernel handles dates after 2038 properly.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-st-lpc.c | 15 ---------------
1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-st-lpc.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-st-lpc.c
index 82b0af159a28..dcdd2b0a58f7 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-st-lpc.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-st-lpc.c
@@ -254,21 +254,6 @@ static int st_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rtc);

- /*
- * The RTC-LPC is able to manage date.year > 2038
- * but currently the kernel can not manage this date!
- * If the RTC-LPC has a date.year > 2038 then
- * it's set to the epoch "Jan 1st 2000"
- */
- st_rtc_read_time(&pdev->dev, &tm_check);
-
- if (tm_check.tm_year >= (2038 - 1900)) {
- memset(&tm_check, 0, sizeof(tm_check));
- tm_check.tm_year = 100;
- tm_check.tm_mday = 1;
- st_rtc_set_time(&pdev->dev, &tm_check);
- }
-
rtc->rtc_dev = rtc_device_register("st-lpc-rtc", &pdev->dev,
&st_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
if (IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev)) {
--
2.16.2