Older versions of Libreboot and Coreboot had an invalid value
(`3' in my case) in the century byte affecting the GM45 in
the Thinkpad X200. Not everybody's updated their firmwares,
and Linux <= 4.2 was able to read the RTC without problems,
so workaround this by ignoring invalid values.
Fixes: 3c217e51d8a272b9 ("rtc: cmos: century support")
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
Cc: Sylvain Chouleur <[email protected]>
Cc: Patrick McDermott <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <[email protected]>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
index 2f1772a358ca..18a6f15e313d 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unsigned int mc146818_get_time(struct rtc_time *time)
time->tm_year += real_year - 72;
#endif
- if (century)
+ if (century > 20)
time->tm_year += (century - 19) * 100;
/*
--
EW
