Re: [PATCH] rtc: cmos: ignore bogus century byte

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 06/01/2019 08:21:03+0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Older versions of Libreboot and Coreboot had an invalid value
> (`3' in my case) in the century byte affecting the GM45 in
> the Thinkpad X200.  Not everybody's updated their firmwares,
> and Linux <= 4.2 was able to read the RTC without problems,
> so workaround this by ignoring invalid values.
> 
> Fixes: 3c217e51d8a272b9 ("rtc: cmos: century support")
> 
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-rtc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Applied, thanks.

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