rtc: rtc_read_alarm() handles wraparound
authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:26 +0000 (09:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:40:04 +0000 (10:40 -0700)
commita01cc6570326c01e70619bf6540fb32139947c33
tree810c96598eebc23ca7e53a25b857a9143a17d7d6
parent251b97f552b1ad414cc5a9ccc8e4e94503edd5fc
rtc: rtc_read_alarm() handles wraparound

While 0e36a9a4a788e4e92407774df76c545910810d35 ("rtc: fix readback from
/sys/class/rtc/rtc?/wakealarm") made sure that active alarms were never
returned with invalid "wildcard" fields (negative), it can still report
(wrongly) that the alarm triggers in the past.

Example, if it's now 10am, an alarm firing at 5am will be triggered
TOMORROW not today.  (Which may also be next month or next year...)

This updates that alarm handling in three ways:

  * Handle alarm rollover in the common cases of RTCs that don't
    support matching on all date fields.

  * Skip the invalid-field logic when it's not needed.

  * Minor bugfix ... tm_isdst should be ignored, it's one of the
    fields Linux doesn't maintain.

A warning is emitted for some of the unhandled rollover cases, but the
possible combinations are a bit too numerous to handle every bit of
potential hardware and firmware braindamage.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/rtc/interface.c