linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Avoid spamming the log on RTC read failure

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Message-ID: <167709656545.70897.7007641023427546410.b4-ty@bootlin.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:11:02 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     a.zummo@...ertech.it, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Avoid spamming the log on RTC read failure


On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:23:38 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> There are cases where the EFI runtime services may end up in a funny
> state, e.g., due to a crash in the variable services, and this affects
> other EFI runtime services as well.
> 
> That means that, even though GetTime() should not return an error, there
> are cases where it might, and there is no point in logging such an
> occurrence multiple times.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] rtc: efi: Avoid spamming the log on RTC read failure
      commit: 668a2abf91143caa226b3ccd0bd4d79ea85935a6

Best regards,

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com