linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RTC] Add Freescale MC13783 RTC driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:15 +0100
From:	Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp@...l.ch>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@...oo.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	"rtc-linux@...glegroups.com" <rtc-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RTC] Add Freescale MC13783 RTC driver

Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:35:42AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> This driver provides support for the RTC part integrated into the
>>> Freescale MC13783 PMIC and bases on patch created earlier by Sascha
>>> Hauer.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-könig@...gutronix.de>
>>> Cc: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp@...l.ch>
>>> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@...oo.com>
>>> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
>>> Cc: rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
>>> ---
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> this patch depends on
>>>
>>> 	mfd/mc13783: near complete rewrite
>>>
>>> sent earlier on lkml[1].  Compared to the earlier version of rtc support
>>> on mc13783 as sent by Sascha, this driver got reset detection and
>>> therefore depends on the patch above.
>>>
>>> A tree runnable on Phytec's PCM038 is available in my git tree
>>>
>>> 	git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6.git mc13783
>>>
>>> .  (Maybe I will rewrite these commits, so please expect it might change
>>> in a non-fast-forward manner.)
>> Valentin, could you already test this?  Any comments by the others?
>>
> 
> I have tested your patches (taken your mc13783 branch today, and merged 
> it into my patches rebased on 2.6.32-rc6).
> 
> Your mfd/mc13783 rewrite seems to work for me (but since there is no 
> real usage for now, I don't use ADC yet and regulator don't do a lot). 
> But it runs fine on my hardware.
> 
> However, I get the hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock error 
> message at boot (from drivers/rtc/hctosys.c:62). Is it normal ?
> 
> Furthermore, the date and time are saved during system off, but the time 
> is not updated: if I shut down the system during 10 minutes, my time 
> will get a 10 minute delay. Is this a normal behavior with you current 
> implementation or is there something we have wrong in our design/code 
> (we have battery for the mc13783) ? I will have a further look at this 
> later, didn't have time now.
> 

This was due to a small hardware problem on our platform. Your RTC 
driver now works well on mx31moboard. Please consider my ackey-by:

Ackey-by: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp@...l.ch>

Val

-- 
Valentin Longchamp, PhD Student, EPFL-STI-LSRO1
valentin.longchamp@...l.ch, Phone: +41216937827
http://people.epfl.ch/valentin.longchamp
MEA3485, Station 9, CH-1015 Lausanne
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/