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rtc: mv: remove artificial limitation 

Dates after 2038 actually fit on 32 bits. The counter will overflow in
2106. Also, it is bad practice to reset the RTC to a default value.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
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Alexandre Belloni 2018-03-08 23:32:51 +01:00
parent b3a5ac42ab
commit 844cba65bf
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drivers/rtc/rtc-mv.c
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@ -223,7 +223,6 @@ static int __init mv_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct resource *res;
struct rtc_plat_data *pdata;
u32 rtc_time;
u32 rtc_date;
int ret = 0;
pdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
@ -259,17 +258,6 @@ static int __init mv_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
}
/*
* A date after January 19th, 2038 does not fit on 32 bits and
* will confuse the kernel and userspace. Reset to a sane date
* (January 1st, 2013) if we're after 2038.
*/
rtc_date = readl(pdata->ioaddr + RTC_DATE_REG_OFFS);
if (bcd2bin((rtc_date >> RTC_YEAR_OFFS) & 0xff) >= 38) {
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "invalid RTC date, resetting to January 1st, 2013\n");
writel(0x130101, pdata->ioaddr + RTC_DATE_REG_OFFS);
}
pdata->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pdata);