From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "Tomáš Janoušek" <tomi@nomi.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc-dev: stop periodic interrupts on device release
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:08:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807291308.38134.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728233638.GA10327@nomi.cz>
On Monday 28 July 2008, Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:05:36PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > Surely you agree that having the framework shut down only *emulated*
> > update IRQs, not "real" ones, is inconsistent? And hence undesirable?
>
> The idea was that if the "real" ones get turned on using some ioctl magic the
> framework has no exact control over, they shouldn't be shut down by it. But
> yeah, your point of view looks fine as well.
The /dev/rtcN support *is* part of the framework. ;)
> So I guess I'll post the current patch to Andrew and then, someone (not me,
> for time and competence reasons, sorry) can prepare a patch removing the
> release op and changing the calls in framework's release to call
> rtc_dev_ioctl.
>
> Is this ok?
Yep.
- Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 20:08 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
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 [this message]
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