From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtc: how should I handle an invalid state?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429145135.26d53758@i1501.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429121924.GA2137@digi.com>
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:19:24 +0200
Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm still stuck with my rtc. My current problem is setting the rtc
> using hwclock --systohc.
>
> The problem is that hwclock tries to read the current time before
> setting the new one. And if that fails, it doesn't update the rtc.
That's a bug of hwclock. :( The correct behaviour for a driver
is to return an error if the clock cannot be read.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 12:19 Uwe Kleine-König
2008-04-29 12:51 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2008-04-29 19:12 ` David Brownell
2008-04-30 6:54 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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