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[v3,2/4] rtc/lib: Introduce rtc_tm_sub() helper function

Message ID 1434074652-16054-2-git-send-email-xlpang@126.com
State Accepted
Commit 9200025724619d83f9fc366281f0bde36afe6e5a
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Xunlei Pang June 12, 2015, 2:04 a.m. UTC 
From: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>

There're many sites need comparing the two rtc_time variants for many
rtc drivers, especially in the instances of rtc_class_ops::set_alarm().

So add this common helper function to make things easy.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
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v2->v3:
Respin rtc_tm_subtract() to rtc_tm_sub() using "static inline".

 include/linux/rtc.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
index 8dcf682..f46f765 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@  extern void rtc_time64_to_tm(time64_t time, struct rtc_time *tm);
 ktime_t rtc_tm_to_ktime(struct rtc_time tm);
 struct rtc_time rtc_ktime_to_tm(ktime_t kt);
 
+/*
+ * rtc_tm_sub - Return the difference in seconds.
+ */
+static inline time64_t rtc_tm_sub(struct rtc_time *lhs, struct rtc_time *rhs)
+{
+	return rtc_tm_to_time64(lhs) - rtc_tm_to_time64(rhs);
+}
+
 /**
  * Deprecated. Use rtc_time64_to_tm().
  */