3.5.7.26 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> commit 98d6f4dd84a134d942827584a3c5f67ffd8ec35f upstream. Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008) Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect. First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the closest userland equivlents). Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid. While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error handling. Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondr...@tiscali.cz> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> [jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com> --- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c index aa27d39..2cfe9a5 100644 --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_getres(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp) clockid_t baseid = alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)].base_clockid; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; return hrtimer_get_res(baseid, tp); } @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_get(clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp) struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)]; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; *tp = ktime_to_timespec(base->gettime()); return 0; -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/