Re: [PATCH] driver/rtc/class.c: check the error after rtc_read_time()

From: Hyogi Gim
Date: Wed Aug 06 2014 - 21:58:22 EST




On 07/24/2014 09:19 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> So what should rtc do in this case? At present it pretends the read
> succeeded. Either way, this doesn't seem to be the place to be making
> such policy decisions..
>
>
>

I agree. But, in this case, RTC device driver can not do anything. And if
rtc_suspend() returns a minus value, then suspend will be aborted. So,
in the worst case, suspend will be failed continually. I think this is not
good.

Most RTC device drivers don't verify the read time value. Even some drivers
just return '0' value(omap, tegra, ...). So, I think the higher level
framework like /drivers/rtc/interface.c should check and handle the rtc
read time.
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