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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:44:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] RTC: RK808: add RTC driver for RK808

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:18:04 +0800 Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com> wrote:

> Adding RTC driver for supporting RTC device present inside RK808 PMIC.
> 
> ...
>
> +	ret = rtc_valid_tm(&tm);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "invalid date/time and init time\n");
> +		rk808_rtc_set_time(&pdev->dev, &tm_def);
> +	}

This is somewhat unusual.  Most drivers will emit a warning and give up
when they find the time is wrong.  Why is this driver different and is
this desirable behaviour?


Also, I did this:

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: rtc-rk808-add-rtc-driver-for-rk808-fix

make tm_def static

Cc: Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/rtc/Kconfig~rtc-rk808-add-rtc-driver-for-rk808-fix drivers/rtc/Kconfig
diff -puN drivers/rtc/Makefile~rtc-rk808-add-rtc-driver-for-rk808-fix drivers/rtc/Makefile
diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c~rtc-rk808-add-rtc-driver-for-rk808-fix drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c~rtc-rk808-add-rtc-driver-for-rk808-fix
+++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c
@@ -326,14 +326,14 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(rk808_rtc_pm_op
 	rk808_rtc_suspend, rk808_rtc_resume);
 
 /* 2014.1.1 12:00:00 Saturday */
-struct rtc_time tm_def = {
-			.tm_wday = 6,
-			.tm_year = 114,
-			.tm_mon = 0,
-			.tm_mday = 1,
-			.tm_hour = 12,
-			.tm_min = 0,
-			.tm_sec = 0,
+static struct rtc_time tm_def = {
+	.tm_wday = 6,
+	.tm_year = 114,
+	.tm_mon = 0,
+	.tm_mday = 1,
+	.tm_hour = 12,
+	.tm_min = 0,
+	.tm_sec = 0,
 };
 
 static int rk808_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
_


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