[PATCH 7/7] efi_rtc: probe function error out in case no efi runtime enabled

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 00:24:26 PDT 2014


Hi, Mark

On 09/22/14 at 12:33pm, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 17:19 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > efi rtc depends on efi runtime services, so if efi runtime services are not
> > usable it should error out.
> > 
> > Without this patch rtc-efi will panic with 'noefi' boot
> 
> Is this still needed after commit da167ad7638759:
> 
>   rtc: ia64: allow other architectures to use EFI RTC
> 
> That should keep efi_rtc_probe from being called if runtime services
> are not available.

If that's the case then this patch should be unnecessary, I have no machine
to test it currently though.

> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c
> > index c4c3843..ca2487b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c
> > @@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ static int __init efi_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> >  {
> >  	struct rtc_device *rtc;
> >  
> > +	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +
> >  	rtc = devm_rtc_device_register(&dev->dev, "rtc-efi", &efi_rtc_ops,
> >  					THIS_MODULE);
> >  	if (IS_ERR(rtc))
> 
> 



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