Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] MFD MAX8998/LP3974: Support LP3974 RTC

From: Samuel Ortiz
Date: Tue Jan 11 2011 - 06:22:18 EST


Hi MyungJoo,

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:17:39PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> The first releases of LP3974 have a large delay in RTC registers,
> which requires 2 seconds of delay after writing to a rtc register
> (recommended by National Semiconductor's engineers)
> before reading it.
>
> If "rtc_delay" field of the platform data is true, the rtc driver
> assumes that such delays are required. Although we have not seen
> LP3974s without requiring such delays, we assume that such LP3974s
> will be released soon (or they have done so already) and they are
> supported by "lp3974" without setting "rtc_delay" at the platform
> data.
>
> This patch adds delays with msleep when writing values to RTC registers
> if the platform data has rtc_delay set.
Patch applied, many thanks.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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