Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] selftest: rtc: Add to check rtc alarm status for alarm related test

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 10/22/24 10:01, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 20/10/2024 20:22:13-0700, Joseph Jang wrote:
>> In alarm_wkalm_set and alarm_wkalm_set_minute test, they use different
>> ioctl (RTC_ALM_SET/RTC_WKALM_SET) for alarm feature detection. They will
>> skip testing if RTC_ALM_SET/RTC_WKALM_SET ioctl returns an EINVAL error
>> code. This design may miss detecting real problems when the
>> efi.set_wakeup_time() return errors and then RTC_ALM_SET/RTC_WKALM_SET
>> ioctl returns an EINVAL error code with RTC_FEATURE_ALARM enabled.
>>
>> In order to make rtctest more explicit and robust, we propose to use
>> RTC_PARAM_GET ioctl interface to check rtc alarm feature state before
>> running alarm related tests. If the kernel does not support RTC_PARAM_GET
>> ioctl interface, we will fallback to check the error number of
>> (RTC_ALM_SET/RTC_WKALM_SET) ioctl call for alarm feature detection.
>>
>> Requires commit 101ca8d05913b ("rtc: efi: Enable SET/GET WAKEUP services
>> as optional")
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Koba Ko <kobak@nvidia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mochs@nvidia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Jang <jjang@nvidia.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> 
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Changed to use $(top_srcdir) instead of hardcoding the path.
>>

Thanks.

Applied to linux-kselftest next for Linux 6.13-rc1

thanks,
-- Shuah