[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid giving out RTC dates below EPOCH

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:11 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Doing so causes xtime to be negative which crashes the timekeeping
> code in funny ways when doing suspend/resume
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---

> +void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
> +{
> +	__read_persistent_clock(&ts);

Should read

+	__read_persistent_clock(ts);

Forgot a quilt ref ;-)

Cheers,
Ben.

> +	/* Sanitize it in case real time clock is set below EPOCH */
> +	if (ts->tv_sec < 0) {
> +		ts->tv_sec = 0;
> +		ts->tv_nsec = 0;
> +	}
> +		
> +}
> +
>  /* clocksource code */
>  static cycle_t rtc_read(struct clocksource *cs)
>  {
> 
> 
> 
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