Re: [PATCH V2] rtc: mc146818: Dont test for bit 0-5 in Register D

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 01/02/2021 20:24:17+0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The recent change to validate the RTC turned out to be overly tight.
> 
> While it cures the problem on the reporters machine it breaks machines
> with Intel chipsets which use bit 0-5 of the D register. So check only
> for bit 6 being 0 which is the case on these Intel machines as well.
> 
> Fixes: 211e5db19d15 ("rtc: mc146818: Detect and handle broken RTCs")
> Reported-by: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm still fine with that going through your tree.

Thanks for this work I do hope this will be the last issue...

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