On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:34:01 -0500 Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> wrote: > From: Konstantin Shlyakhovoy <x0155534@xxxxxx> > > RTC stores time and date in several registers. Due to the fact that > these registers can't be read instantaneously, there is a chance > that reading from counting registers gives an error of one minute, > one hour, one day, etc. > > To address this issue, the RTC has hardware support to copy the > RTC counting registers to static shadowed registers. > The current implementation does not use this feature, and in a > stress test, we can reproduce this error at a rate of around > two times per 300000 readings. > > Fix the implementation to ensure that the right snapshot of time > is captured. hey, nice changelog! Please cc me on rtc patches - I tend to be a bit slow reading the rtc-linux list. > Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@xxxxxx> > Cc: linux-omap <linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Mykola Oleksiienko <x0174904@xxxxxx> > Acked-by: Oleksandr Dmytryshyn <oleksandr.dmytryshyn@xxxxxx> > Acked-by: Graeme Gregory <gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shlyakhovoy <x0155534@xxxxxx> I rewrote your acked-by to Signed-off-by, because you were on the delivery path of the patch. Documentation/SubmittingPatches has details. Is this OK? -- 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
