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Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295

From Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295
Date 2017-08-27 10:30 +0200
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On 27/08/2017 at 04:30:08 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 27.08.2017 um 04:05 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> > n Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 02:33:27AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> +struct rtd119x_rtc {
> >> +	void __iomem *base;
> >> +	struct clk *clk;
> >> +	struct rtc_device *rtcdev;
> >> +	unsigned base_year;
> >> +	spinlock_t lock;
> > 
> > Where is this lock initialised? I would expect a call to
> > spin_lock_init() somewhere.
> 
> Hm, the spinlock in my irq mux series doesn't have that call either; my
> reset driver did have it. The zero initialization appears to work OK,
> but you're probably right that it should be there.
> 
> > I also wonder what this lock is protecting, which rtc->ops_lock does
> > not protect?
> 
> By that same argument we could ask why so many drivers (and mine, too)
> are calling rtc_valid_tm() when __rtc_read_time() calls it again...
> 

Most of them probably predates the introduction of the check in
__rtc_read_time().


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

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[PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-08-27 02:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-08-27 04:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-08-27 04:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-08-27 05:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-08-27 12:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-27 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-08-27 12:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-27 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-08-27 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-08-27 15:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-27 21:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] rtc: Add Realtek RTD1295 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-28 18:00 +0200

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