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Message-Id: <20080209151701.56CAB1B41D1@basil.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Sat,  9 Feb 2008 16:17:01 +0100 (CET)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [5/5] Enable ACPI extended century handling for 32bit too v2


Not that it matters much, see comment in the code.

v2: Fix compilation on !ACPI, pointed out by tglx

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
@@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ unsigned long mach_get_cmos_time(void)
 	mon = CMOS_READ(RTC_MONTH);
 	year = CMOS_READ(RTC_YEAR);
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
-	/* CHECKME: Is this really 64bit only ??? */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+	/*
+	 * On 32bit not strictly needed because the world ends in 2038
+	 * and the code can handle that with the 2 digit heuristics.
+	 */
 	if (acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= FADT2_REVISION_ID &&
 	    acpi_gbl_FADT.century)
 		century = CMOS_READ(acpi_gbl_FADT.century);
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