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authorAndrea Scian <andrea.scian@dave.eu>2015-06-16 11:35:19 +0200
committerAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>2015-09-05 13:19:06 +0200
commit821f51c4da869706356ddecfeeac286bf4df9b98 (patch)
tree0f6fcc6f2dab3927ac712d24f0708f9d5b00328e /drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c
parentrtc: 88pm80x: add device tree support (diff)
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rtc: use rtc_valid_tm() error code when reading date/time
There's a wrong comment in some RTC drivers that say it's better to ignore rtc_valid_tm() when reading RTC timestamp. However this is wrong and is better to return to the userspace the error if timestamp is not valid. Signed-off-by: Andrea Scian <andrea.scian@dave.eu> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c
index 8a7556cbcb7f..1c47650fe624 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c
@@ -165,13 +165,7 @@ static int pcf2123_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
tm->tm_sec, tm->tm_min, tm->tm_hour,
tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_year, tm->tm_wday);
- /* the clock can give out invalid datetime, but we cannot return
- * -EINVAL otherwise hwclock will refuse to set the time on bootup.
- */
- if (rtc_valid_tm(tm) < 0)
- dev_err(dev, "retrieved date/time is not valid.\n");
-
- return 0;
+ return rtc_valid_tm(tm);
}
static int pcf2123_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)