rtc: pcf8523: properly handle oscillator stop bit
authorAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:55:47 +0000 (09:55 +0100)
committerAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:08:30 +0000 (17:08 +0100)
The time and date register of the pcf8223 are undefined after a power
reset. Properly handle the OS bit and return -EINVAL when that bit is set.

It is properly removed when setting the time.

This solves an issue where the time and date may be valid for
rtc_valid_tm() but is not the current time.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8523.c

index 988566caaaa639c7854f3a78c1aecbf21c478139..28c48b3c1946dc8856b7c00a090ba132755dddc7 100644 (file)
@@ -178,28 +178,8 @@ static int pcf8523_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
        if (err < 0)
                return err;
 
-       if (regs[0] & REG_SECONDS_OS) {
-               /*
-                * If the oscillator was stopped, try to clear the flag. Upon
-                * power-up the flag is always set, but if we cannot clear it
-                * the oscillator isn't running properly for some reason. The
-                * sensible thing therefore is to return an error, signalling
-                * that the clock cannot be assumed to be correct.
-                */
-
-               regs[0] &= ~REG_SECONDS_OS;
-
-               err = pcf8523_write(client, REG_SECONDS, regs[0]);
-               if (err < 0)
-                       return err;
-
-               err = pcf8523_read(client, REG_SECONDS, &regs[0]);
-               if (err < 0)
-                       return err;
-
-               if (regs[0] & REG_SECONDS_OS)
-                       return -EAGAIN;
-       }
+       if (regs[0] & REG_SECONDS_OS)
+               return -EINVAL;
 
        tm->tm_sec = bcd2bin(regs[0] & 0x7f);
        tm->tm_min = bcd2bin(regs[1] & 0x7f);
@@ -235,6 +215,7 @@ static int pcf8523_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
                return err;
 
        regs[0] = REG_SECONDS;
+       /* This will purposely overwrite REG_SECONDS_OS */
        regs[1] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_sec);
        regs[2] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_min);
        regs[3] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_hour);