On 8 November 2017 at 13:35, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/11/2017 at 13:29:21 +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: >> > Don't do that. This is a valuable information. If you know the time is >> > invalid, return -EINVAL in read_time(). What your are doing here is >> > confusing the system by making it believe your fake date is the correct >> > time. >> >> Usually for mobile device, we should give one reasonable start time if >> the RTC powered down. Anyway I can remove this feature now. >> Very appreciated for your helpful comments. > > Then userspace will have -EINVAL when reading the RTC and will be able > to set the RTC to whatever value it wants. Don't encode that policy in > the kernel. That's great. Thanks for explanation. -- Baolin.wang Best Regards
