Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 1/7] Blackfin RTC driver: the frequency function is in units of Hz, not units of seconds, so lock our driver down to 1 Hz

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 12:16:29 EST


On Dec 4, 2007 11:41 AM, Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> it should be EINVAL. at least it is wat rtc-cmos does when the value
> is invalid.

in the example rtc test code (Documentation/rtc.txt), would it be
useful to handle EINVAL ? if the freq isnt supported, just say
"hardware does not support frequency %i" and continue on to try the
next freq ? the current code just does:
perror("RTC_IRQP_SET ioctl");
exit(errno);
-mike
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