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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:36:49 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802122130280.12988@apollo.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080211221514.GA12592@basil.nowhere.org>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > So the warning comes a bit late :)
> 
> I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed
> because user space hwclock would work around it. 

And how exaclty does it work around ? By setting the binary cmos clock
with BCD values ?

> The warning certainly won't hurt.

It won't.

> Anyways if you feel strongly about this (I don't) then drop
> this patch, but apply the other ones in the series. 

I'm not opposing the patch, I merily asked for a removal of the never
changing constant.

> The main one I consider important is the change to the 2000 offset
> for 32bit to extend the 32bit lifetime.

Picked the whole lot up.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-09 15:16 Andi Kleen
2008-02-09 15:16 ` [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels Andi Kleen
2008-02-16 19:24   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-20 10:07     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-20 10:23       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-09 15:16 ` [PATCH] [3/5] Add warning when RTC clock reports binary Andi Kleen
2008-02-16 19:38   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-09 15:17 ` [PATCH] [4/5] Fix wrong comment Andi Kleen
2008-02-09 15:17 ` [PATCH] [5/5] Enable ACPI extended century handling for 32bit too v2 Andi Kleen
2008-02-16 19:38   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-11  8:30 ` [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-11  8:56   ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-11 22:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-11 22:15       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-12 20:36         ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2008-02-13 13:49           ` Andi Kleen

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