Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 3/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI sleep "alarm" attribute in sysfs

Len Brown
2007-01-25T23:12:20Z

On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Note that a few RTCs ignore rtc_wkalrm.enabled when setting alarms, or
> > > aren't set up correctly, so they won't yet behave with this attribute.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> >
> > How do I ask to wake up "as soon as possible"?
>
> If you want to wake up ASAP, don't go to sleep :-).
>
> I see it might be handy for debugging... but I guess we should not
> mess rtc design because of that. Just set alarm 10 seconds into
> future.

That's my point.
What is the syntax to request "10-seconds into the future"?