linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t93.c: don't let get

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:53:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@...nmann.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, a.zummo@...ertech.it,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t93.c: don't let get_time() reset
 error state

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:51:23 +0200
Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@...nmann.de> wrote:

> If the rtc reports the time might be invalid due to oscillator
> failure, this flags must not be reset by get_time() as the read
> operation doesn't make the time valid.
> 
> Instead, the flag is reset in set_time() when a valid time is
> to be written.

This is rather vague - what is/are "these flags"?  From the patch I
think you're referring to (the maddeningly undocumented)
M41T93_FLAG_ST?  If so, I'd suggest something like

: If the rtc reports the time might be invalid due to oscillator failure,
: the M41T93_FLAG_ST flag must not be reset by get_time() as the read
: operation doesn't make the time valid.
: 
: Instead, the M41T93_FLAG_ST flag is reset in set_time() when a valid time
: is to be written.

Secondly, you provided no description of the user-visible effects of
the bug.  Hence I cannot work out which kernel version(s) this patch
should be merged into.

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