linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: wilco-ec: Handle reading invalid times

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Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 17:34:10 +0200
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Cc:     Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, enric.balletbo@...labora.com,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, dlaurie@...omium.org,
        Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: wilco-ec: Handle reading invalid times

On 02/10/2019 08:20:34-0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I'm still not convinced it is useful to have an error in dmesg when the
> > time is invalid, as long as userspace knows it is invalid. What is the
> > course of action for the end user when that happens?
> 
> Report it, or, in our case, we will see it in the feedback logs.
> However I do agree that it is not the best option, even if we report
> error to userspace I am not sure if it will handle it properly. What
> userspace is supposed to do when presented with -EIO or similar?
> 

I would say probably retry a few times if it gets -EIO and simply abort
in case of -EINVAL. I'm not aware of any userspace tool behaving that
way though. They all simply abort.

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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