From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, leif.lindholm@linaro.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160606150805.GB3363@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465119356-129799-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
On 05/06/2016 at 11:35:56 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote :
> While the EFI spec mandates an RTC, not every implementation actually adheres
> to that rule (or can adhere to it - some systems just don't have an RTC).
>
> For those, we really don't want to probe the EFI RTC driver at all, because if
> we do we'd get a non-functional driver that does nothing useful but only spills
> our kernel log with warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Applied, thanks.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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2016-06-05 9:35 Alexander Graf
2016-06-06 8:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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