From: "Tomáš Janoušek" <tomi@nomi.cz>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc-dev: stop periodic interrupts on device release
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:06:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080726180610.GA12168@nomi.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080726195521.36d4d48c@i1501.lan.towertech.it>
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 07:55:21PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> I'm not sure this is appropriate. sometimes the PIE is used to control
> external hardware and it doesn't make sense to have an application that's
> always open to handle that.
>
> Any app should be responsible to release what it has allocated, if appropriate,
> and not rely on someone else to do on his behalf.
mplayer and aireplay-ng have never done so. And what about crashes? Am I
supposed to create a small "rtcpieoff" applications and make it into all
distributions so that everyone can clean up the mess?
Additionally, it has been a regression against the old rtc and drivers like
rtc-sh do so even today.
--
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-26 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 15:46 [PATCH] rtc-dev: stop periodic interrupts on device release Tomas Janousek
2008-07-26 17:55 ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-07-26 18:06 ` Tomáš Janoušek [this message]
2008-07-26 18:13 ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-07-26 19:58 ` David Brownell
2008-07-26 20:50 ` David Brownell
2008-07-27 3:03 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-07-27 5:03 ` David Brownell
2008-07-28 20:41 ` Tomáš Janoušek
2008-07-28 20:47 ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-07-28 22:05 ` David Brownell
2008-07-28 23:36 ` Tomáš Janoušek
2008-07-29 20:08 ` David Brownell
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