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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add option hctosys to set time at boot
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519BEF13.2040500@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367752887-2927-4-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de>

On 05/05/2013 04:21 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> drivers/rtc/hctosys (CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS) doesn't work for
> rtc-hid-sensor-time because it will be called in late_init, and thus before
> rtc-hid-sensor-time gets loaded. To set the time through
> rtc-hid-sensor-time at startup, the module now checks by default if the
> system time is before 1970-01-02 and sets the system time (once) if this is
> the case.
>
> To disable this behaviour, set the module option hctosys to zero, e.g. by
> using rtc-hid-sensor-time.hctosys=0 at the kernel command line if the
> driver is statically linked into the kernel.

Sorry I missed this earlier, it fell into my spam box for some reason.


Like Andrew, I think this feels particularly hacky.

Why exactly is late_init too early? (I'm unfamiliar with the 
rtc-hid-sensor-time driver)

If this is a hotplug rtc device (why I'm guessing its not available at 
late_init), would it not be better to leave the setting of time using 
hwclock --hctosys via a udev rule or something?

thanks
-john

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-21 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-19 15:14 [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time; add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-04-22 23:38   ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-23  8:51     ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:08       ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:13         ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:17           ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 15:47             ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-24 21:14               ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-25  6:55                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21             ` [PATCH 0/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: some changes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 1/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 2/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 3/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-05-21 21:42                 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 22:02                 ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-05-21 23:15                   ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-28 19:37                     ` John Stultz
2013-05-29  4:42                       ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-04 13:41                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                           ` [PATCH 0/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 1/3] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 2/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                             ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-13 19:39                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                   ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 1/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 2/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 3/9] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 10:39                                       ` [PATCH 3/9 v2] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 19:55                                         ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-26 21:34                                           ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 22:07                                             ` Greg KH
2013-06-26 23:51                                               ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06  8:55                                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06 18:21                                                   ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-07  7:35                                                     ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                       ` [PATCH 0/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                         ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: improve error handling when rtc register fails Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                         ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-06-28  1:29                                             ` [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/9 v2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 4/9 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:41                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 18:05                                         ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 18:28                                           ` John Stultz
2013-06-15  6:01                                             ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-17 18:10                                               ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 10:15                                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 17:27                                                   ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 18:45                                                     ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 19:28                                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 23:10                                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 5/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:24                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 6/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:11                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-22  8:00                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 7/9] RFC: rtc: implement rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:23                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:43                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:18                                           ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:28                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 8/9] RFC: rtc: hctosys: support rtc_read_timeval() for high precision clocks Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:20                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 9/9] RFC: rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:27                                     ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism John Stultz
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-04  9:38                 ` [PATCH] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: fix possible bug on driver_remove Alexander Holler
2013-06-08  8:56                   ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 4/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for milliseconds Alexander Holler
2013-04-20 23:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Jiri Kosina
2013-04-21  6:38   ` Alexander Holler

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