Re: [PATCH v4 07/10] rtc: max77686: Fix unsupported year message

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Jan 26 2016 - 23:24:31 EST


On 27.01.2016 12:36, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The max77686 RTC only supports a range of 99 years so instead of using
> year 1900 as the base, the year 2000 is used. This means that 1900 to
> 1999 are unsupported years.
>
> The driver was printing a warning for those values but was returning a
> error so for consistency, print an error message instead and don't say
> that a year 2000 is assumed, since the year is not set.
>
> Also, it is better to use dev_* log functions instead of pr_* to print
> information about the device in the kernel log in a standardized way.
>
> This also allows to remove the local pr_fmt() defined macro.
>
> Suggested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Use dev_err() instead of dev_warn() and change message.
> Suggested by Krzysztof Kozlowski and Andi Shyti.
> - Change subject line and commit message of patch #7.
> - Removed Laxman Dewangan's Acked-by tag since the patch changed.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add Laxman Dewangan's Acked-by tag to patch #7.
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-max77686.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof