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SubjectRe: rtc: how should I handle an invalid state?
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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