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From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@spreadtrum.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: sprd: Add Spreadtrum RTC driver
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:48:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMz4kuJNALMSmGV7tSiGZMj6S2=5LyfaqTpzowzM95gLKpHO1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171108053522.qhoagssswonevae4@piout.net>

On 8 November 2017 at 13:35, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2017 at 13:29:21 +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> > Don't do that. This is a valuable information. If you know the time is
>> > invalid, return -EINVAL in read_time(). What your are doing here is
>> > confusing the system by making it believe your fake date is the correct
>> > time.
>>
>> Usually for mobile device, we should give one reasonable start time if
>> the RTC powered down. Anyway I can remove this feature now.
>> Very appreciated for your helpful comments.
>
> Then userspace will have -EINVAL when reading the RTC and will be able
> to set the RTC to whatever value it wants. Don't encode that policy in
> the kernel.

That's great. Thanks for explanation.

-- 
Baolin.wang
Best Regards

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-07 11:34 [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: Add Spreadtrum SC27xx RTC documentation Baolin Wang
2017-11-07 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: sprd: Add Spreadtrum RTC driver Baolin Wang
2017-11-08  3:44   ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-08  5:29     ` Baolin Wang
2017-11-08  5:35       ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-08  5:48         ` Baolin Wang [this message]
2017-11-08  3:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: Add Spreadtrum SC27xx RTC documentation Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-08  5:02   ` Baolin Wang
2017-11-08  5:12     ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-08  5:33       ` Baolin Wang

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