Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:35 +0200 | From | Alessandro Zummo <> | Subject | Re: rtc: how should I handle an invalid state? |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:19:24 +0200 Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm still stuck with my rtc. My current problem is setting the rtc > using hwclock --systohc. > > The problem is that hwclock tries to read the current time before > setting the new one. And if that fails, it doesn't update the rtc.
That's a bug of hwclock. :( The correct behaviour for a driver is to return an error if the clock cannot be read.
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Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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