From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:18:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706222018.54196.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706221145.53157.david-b@pacbell.net>
[ please don't edit folk off the cc list unless you *know* they
are getting duplicates ... ]
> > It's got as much documentation in the kernel tree as that
> > old /proc/acpi/alarm thing. More, in fact, since the GIT
> > comment for the putback creating /sys/rtc/.../wakealarm
> > files has lots of info about how to use it.
>
> What GIT comment are you referring to?
What "git log drivers/rtc/rtc-sysfs.c" shows ... date Feb 12.
The web interface shows it too.
> > One theory: it's an RTC that doesn't support all the fields,
> > so its driver is returning "-1" in fields like "year" or "month".
>
> With the old /proc/acpi/alarm, the year 2007 became 0007. Maybe this is
> the culprit?
That's essentially the same issue. It needs some sort
of generic fix at the rtc_read_alarm() level.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 6:33 rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm Tino Keitel
2007-06-15 6:59 ` Yoichi Yuasa
2007-06-15 7:03 ` Tino Keitel
2007-06-19 12:24 ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2007-06-19 17:24 ` Tino Keitel
2007-06-22 17:34 ` Alessandro Zummo
2007-06-22 18:45 ` David Brownell
2007-06-22 19:44 ` Tino Keitel
2007-06-23 3:18 ` David Brownell [this message]
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