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alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

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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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>  #3.0 and up
Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@tiscali.cz>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
[jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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KOSAKI Motohiro 2013-10-14 17:33:16 -04:00 committed by John Stultz
parent 4a7d3e8a99
commit 98d6f4dd84
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ 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);
}
@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ 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;