Re: [PATCH] rtc: m41t80: Complete error propagation from SMBus calls

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 07/11/2018 02:39:51+0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Complement commit 85d77047c4ea ("drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c: propagate 
> error value from smbus functions") and correct the remaining places that 
> fail to propagate the error code from SMBus calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> References: 85d77047c4ea ("drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c: propagate error value from smbus functions")
> ---
> Hi,
> 
>  I think this does not qualify for backporting, but please feel free to 
> decide otherwise.
> 
>  This change I did verify at run time to the extent I was able to, but I 
> didn't try to trigger artificial errors.  Also the M41T81, which is the 
> device I've been using this driver with, does not have battery failure 
> indication implemented, so I could not execute the procfs handling path 
> (again without making some artificial changes).  These changes should be 
> obvious regardless.
> 
>  I'll be posting further patches over the coming weeks, based on my 
> original effort as archived here: <https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/12/385>,
> <https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/project/lkml/list/?series=73524&archive=both> 
> However I have just realised they'll need another iteration before I post 
> them.  So for now just these two obvious fixes.
> 

Regarding the persistent part, do you really need more than what is
provided? As far as I know, the timekeeping core is already taking care
of using the best source to get the suspended time.


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