Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc3] rtc-cmos alarm acts as oneshot

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Start making the rtc-cmos alarm act more like a oneshot alarm by 
> disabling that alarm after its IRQ fires.  (ACPI hooks are also 
> needed.)
> 
> The Linux RTC framework has previously been a bit vague in this area, 
> but any other behavior is problematic and not very portable.  RTCs 
> with full YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM[:SS] alarms won't have a problem here.  
> Only ones with partial match criteria, with the most visible example 
> being the PC RTC, get confused.  (Because the criteria will match 
> repeatedly.)
> 
> Update comments relating to that oneshot behavior and timezone 
> handling. (Timezones are another issue that's mostly visible with 
> rtc-cmos.  That's because PCs often dual-boot MS-Windows, which likes 
> its RTC to match local wall-clock time instead of UTC.)

Cool. I'm still wondering about:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7014

basically, we had universally working /dev/rtc before, now it appears we 
dont have it anymore. Or were the problems in this bugzilla present with 
the old code too?

	Ingo