RE: [PATCH] rtc: tegra: cleanup probe/remove routines

From: Venu Byravarasu
Date: Sun Apr 15 2012 - 23:21:57 EST


Should be fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannu Heikkinen [mailto:hannuxx@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:24 PM
> To: Venu Byravarasu
> Cc: rtc-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: tegra: cleanup probe/remove routines
>
> On 13/04/12 11:05 +0530, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
> > > + if (info->tegra_rtc_irq <= 0)
> > > + return -EBUSY;
> > Interrupt support is needed only for wake up or timer support.
> > Apart from them RTC can be used for reference time keeping.
> >
> > So, is it not good to print a warn message as "wake up
> > with alarm is not supported" and proceed further instead of
> > returning failure from the driver itself?
>
> I propose that this patch would go in as is, as this is mainly for adjusting
> probe/remove routines for using devm_* funcs, and to leave that above issue
> you mentioned to another patch, as it would be a change to current behavior.
>
>
> br,
> Hannu

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