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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:03:14 +1100
From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:12:02 +0100 Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
wrote:


> Neil, this variation would also keep the kernel from crashing in my test
> environment. What do you think of that?

Hi Stefan,

That patch moves the call out of common code into device-specific code.
As my device doesn't have a 'cmos' rtc it wouldn't run at all for me.

I think we need to get __rtc_read_alarm() to return an error if the alarm time
is before the clock time.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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