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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	linux-pm@lists.osdl.org,
	"linux-acpi@vger" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:17:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701242317.48273.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701101253.28151.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:53, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 3:40 am, Zhang Rui wrote:
> >
> > if /sys/class/rtc/rtcN/alarm can provide the same function, it's great
> > and I'll drop patch#03. I'll also mark /proc/acpi/alarm as deprecated if
> > David's patches are merged. :)
> 
> One help there would be someone from the ACPI team signing off on
> patch #3 of the series I sent, which teaches ACPI how to export the
> extra registers to the rtc-cmos driver.

done.

> There will be another ACPI patch at some point, actually kicking
> in hooks needed to handle system wakeup, but getting the PC into
> the RTC class framework is an important first step.
> 
> Once there's a proper replacement for /proc/acpi/alarm it becomes
> a candidate for removal.  Maybe sooner rather than later, unless
> some users for that old file turn up...

Sometimes that file's syntax is useful -- wake up at 7:00,
but those testing suspend-resume want to wake up 1 minute in the future
now mater what time it is...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-06 11:35 [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs Zhang Rui
2007-01-06 22:21 ` David Brownell
2007-01-07  5:54   ` [linux-pm] " Matthew Garrett
2007-01-08  3:31     ` David Brownell
2007-01-08 13:10       ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  4:14       ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  5:50         ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-25  9:35         ` David Brownell
2007-01-08 11:40     ` Zhang Rui
2007-01-08 13:13       ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  2:28         ` Len Brown
2007-01-25 12:08           ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25 13:15             ` David Brownell
2007-01-25 19:51               ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-26  1:36                 ` Zhang Rui
2007-01-10 20:53       ` David Brownell
2007-01-25  4:17         ` Len Brown [this message]
2007-01-25 13:15           ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  3:33     ` [linux-pm] " Len Brown
2007-01-25  3:28   ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  9:54     ` David Brownell
2007-01-25 19:37     ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-07 11:15 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  2:03   ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  2:52     ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-25  8:17       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-01-25 10:00         ` [linux-pm] " David Brownell
2007-01-18  6:53 ` Zhang Rui
2007-01-21  5:48 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Zhang Rui
2007-01-25  3:50   ` Len Brown

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