Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work

From	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work
Date	2016-06-06 17:10 +0200
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On 05/06/2016 at 11:35:56 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote :
> While the EFI spec mandates an RTC, not every implementation actually adheres
> to that rule (or can adhere to it - some systems just don't have an RTC).
> 
> For those, we really don't want to probe the EFI RTC driver at all, because if
> we do we'd get a non-functional driver that does nothing useful but only spills
> our kernel log with warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Applied, thanks.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> - 2016-06-05 11:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-06-06 11:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: efi: Fail probing if RTC reads don't work Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-06-06 17:10 +0200

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