Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: sprd: Add Spreadtrum RTC driver

[Baolin Wang]

On 8 November 2017 at 13:35, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/11/2017 at 13:29:21 +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> > Don't do that. This is a valuable information. If you know the time is
>> > invalid, return -EINVAL in read_time(). What your are doing here is
>> > confusing the system by making it believe your fake date is the correct
>> > time.
>>
>> Usually for mobile device, we should give one reasonable start time if
>> the RTC powered down. Anyway I can remove this feature now.
>> Very appreciated for your helpful comments.
>
> Then userspace will have -EINVAL when reading the RTC and will be able
> to set the RTC to whatever value it wants. Don't encode that policy in
> the kernel.

That's great. Thanks for explanation.

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Baolin.wang
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