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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.19 143/639] rtc: cmos: ignore bogus century byte
    Hi!

    > From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
    >
    > [ Upstream commit 2a4daadd4d3e507138f8937926e6a4df49c6bfdc ]
    >
    > Older versions of Libreboot and Coreboot had an invalid value
    > (`3' in my case) in the century byte affecting the GM45 in
    > the Thinkpad X200. Not everybody's updated their firmwares,
    > and Linux <= 4.2 was able to read the RTC without problems,
    > so workaround this by ignoring invalid values.

    Should it print a warning so that wrong BIOSes are eventually fixed?

    Best regards,
    Pavel

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