Re: [PATCH 2/4] rtc: s3c: Add time range

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 13:48:35 EST


On 19/10/2021 19:35:26+0300, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 19:22, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 19/10/2021 18:17, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > On 19/10/2021 15:17, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > >> This RTC driver only accepts dates from 2000 to 2099 year. It starts
> > >> counting from 2000 to avoid Y2K problem,
> > >
> > > 1. Where is the minimum (2000) year set in the RTC driver?
> >
> > Ah, indeed. I found it now in the driver.
> >
> > >
> > >> and S3C RTC only supports 100
> > >
> > > On some of the devices 100, on some 1000, therefore, no. This does not
> > > look correct.
> >
> > That part of sentence is still incorrect, but change itself makes sense.
> > Driver does not support <2000.
> >
>
> Driver itself does not allow setting year >= 2100:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< cut here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> if (year < 0 || year >= 100) {
> dev_err(dev, "rtc only supports 100 years\n");
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< cut here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Devices might allow it, so the commit message phrasing is incorrect
> and should be replaced, yes. But the code should be correct. Should I
> send v2 with fixed commit message?
>

It would be better to pass the proper values because else nobody will
ever come back and fix it (hence why I didn't move that driver to
devm_rtc_register_device yet).

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