Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] rtc: rtc-rc5t619: add ricoh rc5t619 RTC driver

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Fri Nov 29 2019 - 03:55:09 EST


On 29/11/2019 07:59:40+0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> > > + /* disable interrupt */
> > > + err = rc5t619_rtc_alarm_enable(&pdev->dev, 0);
> > > + if (err)
> > > + return err;
> >
> > Is it really useful to disable the alarm to reenable them later?
> >
> Well, yes, seems to be nonsense.
> Am I right that I do not need to prevent alarm irqs between
> alloc() and register()?
>

That's fine, the core will be ready to handle alarms after alloc()


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