From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 04/10] RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->read_alarm()
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:53:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298404399.9215.42.camel@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110222181647.GA25569@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 10:16 -0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:09:38AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
>
> > Just so I can better get a grip of the cases your considering, could you
> > maybe give me some more detailed examples of where you'd like to see the
> > alarm timer be set and then persist across multiple power cycles before
> > firing? And how is that persistent value managed by the application
> > setting it?
>
> The WM83xx RTCs can do this (the alarm can be used to initiate a boot)
> and I'd expect many embedded RTC controllers can do similar.
Oh, and would you be able to test the possible solution I have for this?
Since the hardware I have doesn't support alarm persistence across
reset, I'm limited in being able to validate the patch's correctness.
thanks
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 23:55 [PATCH 00/10] [RFC] RTC: Cleanups for 2.6.39 John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 01/10] RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_state John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 02/10] RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_freq() John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 03/10] RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->update_irq_enable() John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 04/10] RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->read_alarm() John Stultz
2011-02-22 2:34 ` [rtc-linux] " Mark Brown
2011-02-22 2:55 ` John Stultz
2011-02-22 8:09 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 12:51 ` Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
2011-02-22 19:35 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 19:51 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 19:58 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 21:26 ` Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
2011-02-22 18:16 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 19:51 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 20:00 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 20:22 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 21:05 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 21:21 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 21:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-22 21:40 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 21:33 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 22:10 ` john stultz
2011-02-22 23:07 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-22 19:53 ` john stultz [this message]
2011-02-22 20:31 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 05/10] RTC: Clean out UIE icotl implementations John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 06/10] RTC: Include information about UIE and PIE in RTC driver proc John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] RTC: Remove UIE and PIE information from the sa1100 " John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] RTC: Fix the cross interrupt issue on rtc-test John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] RTC: sa1100: Update the sa1100 RTC driver John Stultz
2011-02-21 23:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] RTC: Fix up rtc.txt documentation to reflect changes to generic rtc layer John Stultz
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