The alarm of the hym8563 only supports a minute accuracy, while the uie wants an alarm one second in the future. Therefore things like the select() syscall will fail with a timeout, because the next alarm will happen in a worst case of 60 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c index bd628a6..e5f13c4 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c @@ -569,6 +569,9 @@ static int hym8563_probe(struct i2c_client *client, if (IS_ERR(hym8563->rtc)) return PTR_ERR(hym8563->rtc); + /* the hym8563 alarm only supports a minute accuracy */ + hym8563->rtc->uie_unsupported = 1; + #ifdef CONFIG_COMMON_CLK hym8563_clkout_register_clk(hym8563); #endif -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

