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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c, branch v5.10-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rtc: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq()</title>
<updated>2019-08-13T08:53:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>swboyd@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-30T18:15:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We don't need dev_err() messages when platform_get_irq() fails now that
platform_get_irq() prints an error message itself when something goes
wrong. Let's remove these prints with a simple semantic patch.

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@@
expression ret;
struct platform_device *E;
@@

ret =
(
platform_get_irq(E, ...)
|
platform_get_irq_byname(E, ...)
);

if ( \( ret &lt; 0 \| ret &lt;= 0 \) )
{
(
-if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
-{ ...
-dev_err(...);
-... }
|
...
-dev_err(...);
)
...
}
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

While we're here, remove braces on if statements that only have one
statement (manually).

Cc: Alessandro Zummo &lt;a.zummo@towertech.it&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190730181557.90391-40-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We don't need dev_err() messages when platform_get_irq() fails now that
platform_get_irq() prints an error message itself when something goes
wrong. Let's remove these prints with a simple semantic patch.

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@@
expression ret;
struct platform_device *E;
@@

ret =
(
platform_get_irq(E, ...)
|
platform_get_irq_byname(E, ...)
);

if ( \( ret &lt; 0 \| ret &lt;= 0 \) )
{
(
-if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
-{ ...
-dev_err(...);
-... }
|
...
-dev_err(...);
)
...
}
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

While we're here, remove braces on if statements that only have one
statement (manually).

Cc: Alessandro Zummo &lt;a.zummo@towertech.it&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190730181557.90391-40-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mfd-next-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T03:18:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T03:18:40+00:00</published>
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<id>8de262531f5fbb7458463224a7587429800c24bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MFD updates from Lee Jones:
 "Core Frameworks:
   - Set 'struct device' fwnode when registering a new device

  New Drivers:
   - Add support for ROHM BD70528 PMIC

  New Device Support:
   - Add support for LP87561 4-Phase Regulator to TI LP87565 PMIC
   - Add support for RK809 and RK817 to Rockchip RK808
   - Add support for Lid Angle to ChromeOS core
   - Add support for CS47L15 CODEC to Madera core
   - Add support for CS47L92 CODEC to Madera core
   - Add support for ChromeOS (legacy) Accelerometers in ChromeOS core
   - Add support for Add Intel Elkhart Lake PCH to Intel LPSS

  New Functionality:
   - Provide regulator supply information when registering; madera-core
   - Additional Device Tree support; lp87565, madera, cros-ec, rohm,bd71837-pmic
   - Allow over-riding power button press via Device Tree; rohm-bd718x7
   - Differentiate between running processors; cros_ec_dev

  Fix-ups:
   - Big header file update; cros_ec_commands.h
   - Split header per-subsystem; rohm-bd718x7
   - Remove superfluous code; menelaus, cs5535-mfd, cs47lXX-tables
   - Trivial; sorting, coding style; intel-lpss-pci
   - Only remove Power Off functionality if set locally; rk808
   - Make use for Power Off Prepare(); rk808
   - Fix spelling mistake in header guards; stmfx
   - Properly free IDA resources
   - SPDX fixups; cs47lXX-tables, madera
   - Error path fixups; hi655x-pmic

  Bug Fixes:
   - Add missing break in case() statement
   - Repair undefined behaviour when not initialising variables; arizona-core, madera-core
   - Fix reference to Device Tree documentation; madera"

* tag 'mfd-next-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd: (45 commits)
  mfd: hi655x-pmic: Fix missing return value check for devm_regmap_init_mmio_clk
  mfd: madera: Fixup SPDX headers
  mfd: madera: Remove some unused registers and fix some defaults
  mfd: intel-lpss: Release IDA resources
  mfd: intel-lpss: Add Intel Elkhart Lake PCH PCI IDs
  mfd: cs5535-mfd: Remove ifdef OLPC noise
  mfd: stmfx: Fix macro definition spelling
  dt-bindings: mfd: Add link to ROHM BD71847 Datasheet
  MAINAINERS: Swap words in INTEL PMIC MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE DRIVERS
  mfd: cros_ec_dev: Register cros_ec_accel_legacy driver as a subdevice
  mfd: rk808: Prepare rk805 for poweroff
  mfd: rk808: Check pm_power_off pointer
  mfd: cros_ec: differentiate SCP from EC by feature bit
  dt-bindings: Add binding for cros-ec-rpmsg
  mfd: madera: Add Madera core support for CS47L92
  mfd: madera: Add Madera core support for CS47L15
  mfd: madera: Update DT bindings to add additional CODECs
  mfd: madera: Add supply mapping for MICVDD
  mfd: madera: Fix potential uninitialised use of variable
  mfd: madera: Fix bad reference to pinctrl.txt file
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MFD updates from Lee Jones:
 "Core Frameworks:
   - Set 'struct device' fwnode when registering a new device

  New Drivers:
   - Add support for ROHM BD70528 PMIC

  New Device Support:
   - Add support for LP87561 4-Phase Regulator to TI LP87565 PMIC
   - Add support for RK809 and RK817 to Rockchip RK808
   - Add support for Lid Angle to ChromeOS core
   - Add support for CS47L15 CODEC to Madera core
   - Add support for CS47L92 CODEC to Madera core
   - Add support for ChromeOS (legacy) Accelerometers in ChromeOS core
   - Add support for Add Intel Elkhart Lake PCH to Intel LPSS

  New Functionality:
   - Provide regulator supply information when registering; madera-core
   - Additional Device Tree support; lp87565, madera, cros-ec, rohm,bd71837-pmic
   - Allow over-riding power button press via Device Tree; rohm-bd718x7
   - Differentiate between running processors; cros_ec_dev

  Fix-ups:
   - Big header file update; cros_ec_commands.h
   - Split header per-subsystem; rohm-bd718x7
   - Remove superfluous code; menelaus, cs5535-mfd, cs47lXX-tables
   - Trivial; sorting, coding style; intel-lpss-pci
   - Only remove Power Off functionality if set locally; rk808
   - Make use for Power Off Prepare(); rk808
   - Fix spelling mistake in header guards; stmfx
   - Properly free IDA resources
   - SPDX fixups; cs47lXX-tables, madera
   - Error path fixups; hi655x-pmic

  Bug Fixes:
   - Add missing break in case() statement
   - Repair undefined behaviour when not initialising variables; arizona-core, madera-core
   - Fix reference to Device Tree documentation; madera"

* tag 'mfd-next-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd: (45 commits)
  mfd: hi655x-pmic: Fix missing return value check for devm_regmap_init_mmio_clk
  mfd: madera: Fixup SPDX headers
  mfd: madera: Remove some unused registers and fix some defaults
  mfd: intel-lpss: Release IDA resources
  mfd: intel-lpss: Add Intel Elkhart Lake PCH PCI IDs
  mfd: cs5535-mfd: Remove ifdef OLPC noise
  mfd: stmfx: Fix macro definition spelling
  dt-bindings: mfd: Add link to ROHM BD71847 Datasheet
  MAINAINERS: Swap words in INTEL PMIC MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE DRIVERS
  mfd: cros_ec_dev: Register cros_ec_accel_legacy driver as a subdevice
  mfd: rk808: Prepare rk805 for poweroff
  mfd: rk808: Check pm_power_off pointer
  mfd: cros_ec: differentiate SCP from EC by feature bit
  dt-bindings: Add binding for cros-ec-rpmsg
  mfd: madera: Add Madera core support for CS47L92
  mfd: madera: Add Madera core support for CS47L15
  mfd: madera: Update DT bindings to add additional CODECs
  mfd: madera: Add supply mapping for MICVDD
  mfd: madera: Fix potential uninitialised use of variable
  mfd: madera: Fix bad reference to pinctrl.txt file
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: rk808: Add RK809 and RK817 support.</title>
<updated>2019-06-27T13:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Xie</name>
<email>tony.xie@rock-chips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-21T10:34:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=dc79054a64b3dc403ff370f9d4a4cbe502f81d77'/>
<id>dc79054a64b3dc403ff370f9d4a4cbe502f81d77</id>
<content type='text'>
RK809 and RK817 are power management IC chips for multimedia products.
Most of their functions and registers are same, including the rtc.

Signed-off-by: Tony Xie &lt;tony.xie@rock-chips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
RK809 and RK817 are power management IC chips for multimedia products.
Most of their functions and registers are same, including the rtc.

Signed-off-by: Tony Xie &lt;tony.xie@rock-chips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 288</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:36:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-29T14:18:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2025cf9e193de05b0654570dd639acb49ebd3adf'/>
<id>2025cf9e193de05b0654570dd639acb49ebd3adf</id>
<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms and conditions of the gnu general public license
  version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program
  is distributed in the hope it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 263 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.208660670@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms and conditions of the gnu general public license
  version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program
  is distributed in the hope it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 263 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.208660670@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: Use dev_get_drvdata()</title>
<updated>2019-04-29T13:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-23T07:50:16+00:00</published>
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<id>527bd754d1ffc4bbd89a33c643e74c53d713eb4e</id>
<content type='text'>
Using dev_get_drvdata directly.

Cc: Alessandro Zummo &lt;a.zummo@towertech.it&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Using dev_get_drvdata directly.

Cc: Alessandro Zummo &lt;a.zummo@towertech.it&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: rk808: Switch to use %ptR</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T21:40:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T21:23:22+00:00</published>
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<id>0991e754b99cc262f7dfd5e33390404327446d51</id>
<content type='text'>
Use %ptR instead of open coded variant to print content of
struct rtc_time in human readable format.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Use %ptR instead of open coded variant to print content of
struct rtc_time in human readable format.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: clean up indentation issues, remove extraneous space, add missing tabs</title>
<updated>2018-11-12T22:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-01T14:53:52+00:00</published>
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<id>725412d9e07aad88767ad847dcc81d60b617af99</id>
<content type='text'>
Trivial fix to clean up indentation issues, remove spaces, add missing
tabs

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Trivial fix to clean up indentation issues, remove spaces, add missing
tabs

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: rk808: fix possible race condition</title>
<updated>2018-03-17T13:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Belloni</name>
<email>alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T10:57:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=201fac95e799c3d0304ec724d555e1251b9f6e84'/>
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<content type='text'>
The probe function is not allowed to fail after registering the RTC because
the following may happen:

CPU0:                                CPU1:
sys_load_module()
 do_init_module()
  do_one_initcall()
   cmos_do_probe()
    rtc_device_register()
     __register_chrdev()
     cdev-&gt;owner = struct module*
                                     open("/dev/rtc0")
    rtc_device_unregister()
  module_put()
  free_module()
   module_free(mod-&gt;module_core)
   /* struct module *module is now
      freed */
                                      chrdev_open()
                                       spin_lock(cdev_lock)
                                       cdev_get()
                                        try_module_get()
                                         module_is_live()
                                         /* dereferences already
                                            freed struct module* */

Switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device to register the rtc
as late as possible.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The probe function is not allowed to fail after registering the RTC because
the following may happen:

CPU0:                                CPU1:
sys_load_module()
 do_init_module()
  do_one_initcall()
   cmos_do_probe()
    rtc_device_register()
     __register_chrdev()
     cdev-&gt;owner = struct module*
                                     open("/dev/rtc0")
    rtc_device_unregister()
  module_put()
  free_module()
   module_free(mod-&gt;module_core)
   /* struct module *module is now
      freed */
                                      chrdev_open()
                                       spin_lock(cdev_lock)
                                       cdev_get()
                                        try_module_get()
                                         module_is_live()
                                         /* dereferences already
                                            freed struct module* */

Switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device to register the rtc
as late as possible.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: rk808: remove useless debug message</title>
<updated>2018-03-17T13:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Belloni</name>
<email>alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T10:48:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4cda172bc338abf770dcdbcf61049ef0d76b17fc'/>
<id>4cda172bc338abf770dcdbcf61049ef0d76b17fc</id>
<content type='text'>
At probe time, printing a message when the time is invalid doesn't have
much value. Also, as the comment suggest, this is a leftover from
development wherhe this was used to set the RTc to a default time.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
At probe time, printing a message when the time is invalid doesn't have
much value. Also, as the comment suggest, this is a leftover from
development wherhe this was used to set the RTc to a default time.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: rk808: Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st</title>
<updated>2015-12-20T12:39:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julius Werner</name>
<email>jwerner@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T23:02:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716'/>
<id>f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716</id>
<content type='text'>
In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar
insufficiently represented reality, and changed the rules about
calculating leap years to account for this. Similarly, in A.D. 2013
Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian calendar still
contained flaws, and that the month of November should be counted up to
31 days instead. Unfortunately it takes a long time for calendar changes
to gain widespread adoption, and just like more than 300 years went by
before the last Protestant nation implemented Greg's proposal, we will
have to wait a while until all religions and operating system kernels
acknowledge the inherent advantages of the Rockchip system. Until then
we need to translate dates read from (and written to) Rockchip hardware
back to the Gregorian format.

This patch works by defining Jan 1st, 2016 as the arbitrary anchor date
on which Rockchip and Gregorian calendars are in sync. From that we can
translate arbitrary later dates back and forth by counting the number
of November/December transitons since the anchor date to determine the
offset between the calendars. We choose this method (rather than trying
to regularly "correct" the date stored in hardware) since it's the only
way to ensure perfect time-keeping even if the system may be shut down
for an unknown number of years. The drawback is that other software
reading the same hardware (e.g. mainboard firmware) must use the same
translation convention (including the same anchor date) to be able to
read and write correct timestamps from/to the RTC.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner &lt;jwerner@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com&gt;
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In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar
insufficiently represented reality, and changed the rules about
calculating leap years to account for this. Similarly, in A.D. 2013
Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian calendar still
contained flaws, and that the month of November should be counted up to
31 days instead. Unfortunately it takes a long time for calendar changes
to gain widespread adoption, and just like more than 300 years went by
before the last Protestant nation implemented Greg's proposal, we will
have to wait a while until all religions and operating system kernels
acknowledge the inherent advantages of the Rockchip system. Until then
we need to translate dates read from (and written to) Rockchip hardware
back to the Gregorian format.

This patch works by defining Jan 1st, 2016 as the arbitrary anchor date
on which Rockchip and Gregorian calendars are in sync. From that we can
translate arbitrary later dates back and forth by counting the number
of November/December transitons since the anchor date to determine the
offset between the calendars. We choose this method (rather than trying
to regularly "correct" the date stored in hardware) since it's the only
way to ensure perfect time-keeping even if the system may be shut down
for an unknown number of years. The drawback is that other software
reading the same hardware (e.g. mainboard firmware) must use the same
translation convention (including the same anchor date) to be able to
read and write correct timestamps from/to the RTC.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner &lt;jwerner@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com&gt;
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