linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc/rtc-spear: remove unnecessary check against rtc_valid

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Message-ID: <4FE81EFE.20000@st.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:49:10 +0530
From:	Rajeev kumar <rajeev-dlh.kumar@...com>
To:	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@...il.com>,
	spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>,
	"rtc-linux@...glegroups.com" <rtc-linux@...glegroups.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc/rtc-spear: remove unnecessary check against rtc_valid_tm
 and tm2bcd

On 6/23/2012 5:13 PM, Devendra Naga wrote:
> rtc_valid_tm is always return
> -EINVAL if the time doesn't represent a valid date and time and 0 if its.
>
> so we can simply do rtc_valid_tm(tm) rather doing rtc_valid_tm(tm) != 0 checking.
> and also tm2bcd() does return -EINVAL if the time doesn't represent a valid date and time
> and 0 if its.
>
> and also removing err because is_write_complete will return -EIO if our write to the
> RTC registers didn't happen and 0 if its.
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga<devendra.aaru@...il.com>

Acked-By: Rajeev Kumar <rajeev-dlh.kumar@...com>

~Rajeev
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