On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:14:40PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > >It is surely avoidable. The driver knows (or should know) whether or > >not the hardware has been configured or not. > > So you only want to avoid the register read here? No, that is not what I mean. The two callers are gettime and adjtime. Can't you make sure the hardware is ready before you register the clock in the first place? If not, what is purpose of returning EBUSY? Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html