Re: [RFC PATCH 08/10] rtc: New driver for RTC in Netronix embedded controller

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 02:11:06AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:

On 21/06/2020 00:42:19+0200, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:

quoted

With this driver, mainline Linux can keep its time and date in sync with
the vendor kernel.

Advanced functionality like alarm and automatic power-on is not yet
supported.

Please report the results of rtctest (from the kernel tree) [...]

  # ./rtctest
  [==========] Running 7 tests from 2 test cases.
  [ RUN      ] rtc.date_read
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:49:date_read:Current RTC date/time is 11/04/2006 23:11:23.
  [       OK ] rtc.date_read
  [ RUN      ] rtc.uie_read
  [  180.651355] random: crng init done
  uie_read: Test terminated by timeout
  [     FAIL ] rtc.uie_read
  [ RUN      ] rtc.uie_select
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:98:uie_select:Expected 0 (0) != rc (0)
  uie_select: Test terminated by assertion
  [     FAIL ] rtc.uie_select
  [ RUN      ] rtc.alarm_alm_set
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:129:alarm_alm_set:skip alarms are not supported.
  [       OK ] rtc.alarm_alm_set
  [ RUN      ] rtc.alarm_wkalm_set
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:185:alarm_wkalm_set:skip alarms are not supported.
  [       OK ] rtc.alarm_wkalm_set
  [ RUN      ] rtc.alarm_alm_set_minute
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:231:alarm_alm_set_minute:skip alarms are not supported.
  [       OK ] rtc.alarm_alm_set_minute
  [ RUN      ] rtc.alarm_wkalm_set_minute
  ../../tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c:287:alarm_wkalm_set_minute:skip alarms are not supported.
  [       OK ] rtc.alarm_wkalm_set_minute
  [==========] 5 / 7 tests passed.
  [  FAILED  ]

[...] and rtc-range
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/rtc-tools.git/tree/rtc-range.c)

  # ./rtc-range
  
  Testing 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
  KO  Read back 2226-01-01 00:01:00.
  
  Testing 2000-02-28 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2000-02-28 23:28:23.
  
  Testing 2020-02-28 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2020-02-28 23:28:23.
  
  Testing 2038-01-19 03:14:07.
  KO  Read back 2038-01-19 03:19:03.
  
  Testing 2069-12-31 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2069-12-31 23:31:23.
  
  Testing 2079-12-31 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2079-12-31 23:31:23.
  
  Testing 2099-12-31 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2099-12-31 23:31:23.
  
  Testing 2255-12-31 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2255-12-31 23:31:23.
  
  Testing 2100-02-28 23:59:59.
  KO  Read back 2100-02-28 23:28:23.
  
  Testing 2106-02-07 06:28:15.
  KO  Read back 2106-02-07 06:07:06.
  
  Testing 2262-04-11 23:47:16.
  KO  Read back 2006-04-11 23:11:23.


Something is very wrong here.

I'll try to fix the failures in rtctest and the problems in rtc-range
before version 2 of the patchset.

(The 2255 date was my addition, because I suspect this to be the upper
limit of the RTC's range.)


[...]

quoted

+config RTC_DRV_NTXEC
+	tristate "Netronix embedded controller RTC driver"
+	depends on MFD_NTXEC
+

This should get an help section.

Ok, I'll add one.


[...]

quoted

+#include <linux/rtc.h>
+#include <linux/mfd/ntxec.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of_device.h>

Please sort the includes.

Will do.


[...]

quoted

+	rtcdev = devm_rtc_device_register(&pdev->dev, "ntxec-rtc",
+					  &ntxec_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);

Please use devm_rtc_allocate_device and rtc_register_device. Also, set
the supported range (->range_min and ->range_max).

Ok, will do.


Thanks for the review and the testing tips.
Jonathan Neuschäfer