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
