Re: A few patches for 2.4.x for Alpha...
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:59:05PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be VERY unsuccessful in getting patches into the kernel anymore,
> > so I figured I'd try sending them to you first due to your high success
> > rate :-)
> >
> > Attached is a patch that does three things:
> > * drivers/char/rtc.c:
> > Removes MIPS DECstation epoch support for non-MIPS machines and adds
> > standard PC (1900) epoch support in its place (which will act
> > as a pre-2000 VMS epoch support patch as well). It also adds post-2000
> > VMS epoch support.
> >
> > My testing so far has shown that, with this patch, I can NEVER seem to
> > guess the year incorrectly, regardless of where it was set.
>
> I usually don't enjoy changes in the RTC since it's not easy to audit
BTW, I just noticed you should update two lines also in
arch/alpha/kernel/time.c, no need to bother to send a patch, I will do
that myself since I'm just in the diffing work.
Andrea
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