Re: [PATCH 2/3] [v2] m68k: mac: use time64_t in RTC handling

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:04 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The real-time clock on m68k (and powerpc) mac systems uses an unsigned
> 32-bit value starting in 1904, which overflows in 2040, about two years
> later than everyone else, but this gets wrapped around in the Linux
> code in 2038 already because of the deprecated usage of time_t and/or
> long in the conversion.
>
> Getting rid of the deprecated interfaces makes it work until 2040 as
> documented, and it could be easily extended by reinterpreting
> the resulting time64_t as a positive number. For the moment, I'm
> adding a WARN_ON() that triggers if we encounter a time before 1970
> or after 2040 (the two are indistinguishable).
>
> This brings it in line with the corresponding code that we have on
> powerpc macintosh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

Applied and queued for v4.19, with the WARN_ON() dropped.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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