From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:17:48 -0500 Message-ID: <200701242317.48273.lenb@kernel.org> References: <1168083306.5619.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1168256428.5754.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200701101253.28151.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:43591 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752022AbXAYETM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:19:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200701101253.28151.david-b@pacbell.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Zhang Rui , Matthew Garrett , linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, "linux-acpi@vger" , linux-pm@osdl.org 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...