linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] rtc-x1205: fix rtc_time to y2k register value conversion

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Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:02:34 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <jw@...ix.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@...oo.com>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] rtc-x1205: fix rtc_time to y2k register value conversion

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:11:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm thinking that patches 1 and 2 are 2.6.32 material?

Yeah, I think so too, although I hope we can get feedback from the
authors beforehand.

Because #1 looks obvious to me and makes the driver at all usable for
me but the code has been like that since the initial merge in 2006.
So either

	a) nobody ever set the date with this thing,
	b) every embedded linux company has its own private patch or
	c) I am missing something,

where likelyhood is in reverse order.  That makes me feel slightly
uncomfortable.
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