From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alessandro.zummo@towertech.it,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTC: Ensure that time being passed to set_alarm() is valid.
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:31:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060607193121.GG13165@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149704455.20386.90.camel@fuzzie.sanpeople.com>
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Andrew Victor wrote:
> RTC: Ensure that the time being passed to set_alarm() is valid.
NAK. rtc_valid_tm checks that the time/date is valid (eg, month is
within range). Alarms can have a "don't care" state for each part -
for example, setting month to 0xff means "alarm every month".
See the API exposed by /dev/rtc on x86 by virtue of being the
MC146818 register set.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 18:20 [PATCH] RTC: Ensure that time being passed to set_alarm() is valid Andrew Victor
2006-06-07 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07 18:50 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-06-07 19:31 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-06-08 6:23 ` Andrew Victor
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