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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>,
	nandor.han@vaisala.com, Biwen Li <biwen.li@nxp.com>,
	a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v2] rtc: pcf85363/pcf85263: fix error that failed to run hwclock -w
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:24:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821112413.GA27031@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190821112142.GD5128@sirena.co.uk>

On 21/08/2019 12:21:42+0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:33:14PM -0500, Li Yang wrote:
> 
> > Some of the RTC hardware has the capability of address wrapping which
> > means if you access a continuous address range across a certain
> > boundary(could be the boundary of a regmap region) the hardware
> > actually wrap the access to a lower address.  But the address
> > violation check of regmap rejects such access.  According to
> > Alexcandre, the address wrapping is essential to the functionality of
> 
> It's *essential*?  Will innovation never cease?
> 

To be clear, for some RTCs, its is the only way to accurately set the
time.



-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-21 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16  2:46 [v2] rtc: pcf85363/pcf85263: fix error that failed to run hwclock -w Biwen Li
2019-08-16  8:04 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-08-16 15:50   ` Li Yang
2019-08-16 16:28     ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-08-16 19:40       ` Li Yang
2019-08-20 18:22         ` Mark Brown
2019-08-20 18:33           ` Li Yang
2019-08-21 11:21             ` Mark Brown
2019-08-21 11:24               ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2019-08-21 11:30                 ` Mark Brown
2019-08-21 11:38                   ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-08-21 11:47                     ` Mark Brown
2019-08-21  6:20         ` Nandor Han
2019-08-26  4:29           ` [EXT] " Biwen Li
2019-08-26  9:17             ` Nandor Han
2019-08-26  9:49               ` Biwen Li
2019-08-26 10:06                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-08-26 10:40                   ` Biwen Li

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