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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.19 178/191] rtc: rx8010: dont modify the global rtc ops
Hi!

> commit d3b14296da69adb7825022f3224ac6137eb30abf upstream.
>
> The way the driver is implemented is buggy for the (admittedly unlikely)
> use case where there are two RTCs with one having an interrupt configured
> and the second not. This is caused by the fact that we use a global
> rtc_class_ops struct which we modify depending on whether the irq number
> is present or not.

While this fixes very unlikely configuration with two RTCs...

> Fix it by using two const ops structs with and without alarm operations.
> While at it: not being able to request a configured interrupt is an error
> so don't ignore it and bail out of probe().

...it contains unrelated changes and in particular will break
operation when IRQ can not be requested.

I don't believe we need it in -stable.

Best regards,
Pavel

> @@ -468,16 +478,16 @@ static int rx8010_probe(struct i2c_clien
>
> if (err) {
> dev_err(&client->dev, "unable to request IRQ\n");
> - client->irq = 0;
> - } else {
> - rx8010_rtc_ops.read_alarm = rx8010_read_alarm;
> - rx8010_rtc_ops.set_alarm = rx8010_set_alarm;
> - rx8010_rtc_ops.alarm_irq_enable = rx8010_alarm_irq_enable;
> + return err;
> }

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