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From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>,
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: report time-retrieval errors when updating alarm
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:20:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+ASDXOXSKoRcuRWZ1FGNcioFKSiazXGxOvMv5=px_pn46vJbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021161113.GZ3125@piout.net>

Hi Alexandre!

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:11 AM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> On 21/05/2018 09:42:22-0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > __rtc_read_time() can fail (e.g., if the RTC uses an unreliable medium).
> > When it does, we don't report the error, but instead calculate a
> > 1-second alarm based on the potentially-garbage 'tm' (in practice,
> > __rtc_read_time() zeroes out the time first, so it's likely to still be
> > all 0).
> >
> > Let's propagate the error instead.
> >
>
> I submitted
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rtc/20191021155631.3342-2-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com/T/#u
> to solve this after looking at all the implication checking the return
> value of __rtc_read_time had.

Only about a year and a half late, nice! Fortunately we have a decent
(albeit time-consuming) process for rebasing our downstream patches in
Chrome OS kernels...

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-21 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-21 16:42 [PATCH] rtc: report time-retrieval errors when updating alarm Brian Norris
2019-10-21 16:11 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-21 17:20   ` Brian Norris [this message]
2019-10-21 17:48     ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-21 18:08       ` Brian Norris

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