Hi, On Wednesday 01 April 2015 09:22 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/04/2015 at 11:24:56 +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote : >> RTC module contains a kicker mechanism to prevent any spurious writes >> from changing the register values. This mechanism requires two MMR >> writes to the KICK0 and KICK1 registers with exact data values >> before the kicker lock mechanism is released. >> >> Currently the driver release the lock in the probe and leaves it enabled >> until the rtc driver removal. This eliminates the idea of preventing >> spurious writes when RTC driver is loaded. >> So implement rtc lock and unlock functions before and after register writes. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@xxxxxx> >> --- >> - This is as advised by Paul to implement lock and unlock functions in >> the driver and not to unlock and leave it in probe. >> The same discussion can be seen here: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap%40vger.kernel.org/msg111588.html >> >> drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- >> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c >> index 8e5851a..96cc613 100644 >> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c >> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c >> @@ -156,6 +156,22 @@ static inline void rtc_writel(struct omap_rtc *rtc, unsigned int reg, u32 val) >> writel(val, rtc->base + reg); >> } >> >> +static void rtc_unlock(struct omap_rtc *rtc) >> +{ >> + if (rtc->type->has_kicker) { > > Instead of testing for has_kicker each time, I would add .lock and > .unlock to omap_rtc_device_type and directly use rtc->type->lock and > rtc->type->unlock. Makes sense. I have posted v2 of my series updating this. Thanks and regards, Lokesh > >> + rtc_writel(rtc, OMAP_RTC_KICK0_REG, KICK0_VALUE); >> + rtc_writel(rtc, OMAP_RTC_KICK1_REG, KICK1_VALUE); >> + } >> +} >> + -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html