Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757456AbYBPTY5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:24:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755019AbYBPTYu (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:24:50 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:51276 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597AbYBPTYu (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:24:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:24:37 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andi Kleen cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels In-Reply-To: <20080209151658.4A3AD1B41D1@basil.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20080209416.271135970@suse.de> <20080209151658.4A3AD1B41D1@basil.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 26 On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > We know it is already after 2000. > > This extends the effective lifetime of 32bit systems by 8 years: > from 2030 to 2038. > > The only drawback is that users cannot set the cmos date to before 2000 > now on 32bit with systems that don't support extended century in > the RTC clock. 64bit systems had this limitation for some time > and nobody complained. > > And they can always set it to such a date in Linux only using date -s > if they really want. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Applied. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/