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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current -git
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:54:05 +0200
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On Saturday 22 May 2010, john stultz wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > Trying to boot current -git on Acer Ferrari One (64-bit), I get mount errors
> > > for all filesystems telling me that "now = (null) is in the future" and when
> > > run 'date' it says: "date: time <long negative number> is out of range".
> > > 
> > > Any ideas anyone?
> > 
> > No ideas, but apart from the obvious "maybe you can pin it down a bit with 
> > a few bisection compiles", it's almost certainly through the timer tree 
> > merge from Thomas, which included various wall-clock-time changes from 
> > John Stultz & co.
> > 
> > I don't see anything else that would likely affect any wall-clock time, 
> > but who knows..
> > 
> > John, Thomas? Ring any bells?
> 
> Hrm..  From my queue, I'd probably try reverting the following first:
> 
> 6a867a3|| time: Remove xtime_cache

That doesn't help.
 
> Rafael: I assume 2.6.34 is fine?

Yes, it is.

Thanks,
Rafael