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SubjectRe: Help needed, Re: [Bug #14334] pcmcia suspend regression from 2.6.31.1 to 2.6.31.2 - Dell Inspiron 600m
Hi!

> (Bug was simple but took a while to track down: machine was left in
> storage for a while, battery ran out, RTC went back to Jan 1, 1904,
> which means a negative xtime, and the new timekeeping code will do
> horrible things including hanging at resume when that happens. Fix is to
> make powerpc read_persistent_clock() to ignore the RTC when it contains
> a date older than epoch).

Additionaly, it would be nice if the machine would not hang, no matter
what RTC says...
Pavel

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