linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:47:42 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	matt.fleming@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock


* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 25.05.12 at 17:24, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> > > Looks good, but should we also be changing get_time to return in UTC? 
> > 
> > Imo that would be a separate change though.
> 
> Sure, but probably a useful one. I've had complaints from firmware 
> vendors that we're not handling the timezone properly here.

I converted this bit of the discussion into:

Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>

for the original patch. Holler if that's wrong.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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