Re: [v2] rtc: pcf85363/pcf85263: fix error that failed to run hwclock -w

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 21/08/2019 12:21:42+0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:33:14PM -0500, Li Yang wrote:
> 
> > Some of the RTC hardware has the capability of address wrapping which
> > means if you access a continuous address range across a certain
> > boundary(could be the boundary of a regmap region) the hardware
> > actually wrap the access to a lower address.  But the address
> > violation check of regmap rejects such access.  According to
> > Alexcandre, the address wrapping is essential to the functionality of
> 
> It's *essential*?  Will innovation never cease?
> 

To be clear, for some RTCs, its is the only way to accurately set the
time.



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