rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 06/02/2018 at 16:22:47 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Just a note to let you know that this patch should have gone through my
> > tree but it was not sent to linux-rtc or me.
> 
> Sorry, I saw it had been languishing for a long time and assumed you'd
> missed it.
> 
> Happy to revert/rework it if you're not happy with it.
> 

No, that's fine. It's just that the commit title stands out when using
git log --oneline and that triggered my OCD ;)

> > I guess what happened is that Michael cleaned up the Linux PPC patchwork
> > queue.
> 
> Yeah I did.
> 
> In future I'll ping you if there's something that seems to have fallen
> through the cracks.
> 

Great thanks!


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