From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751232Ab0CAK4b (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:56:31 -0500 Received: from elettra.colt-to.towertech.it ([213.215.222.70]:46418 "EHLO elettra.colt-to.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905Ab0CAK43 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:56:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:56:25 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Gortmaker , Andrew Morton , Valentin Longchamp , Sascha Hauer Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 6/6] rtc/mc13783: implement alarm Message-ID: <20100301115625.5d048580@linux.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <1267440825-14694-6-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> References: <1267440825-14694-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1267440825-14694-6-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:53:45 +0100 Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > for now this just ignores the possible race to trigger an alarm when > setting the time. Should I resolve that, if so, what is the prefered > way to do that? I saw you email on the topic but I haven't had the time to answer appropriately. I'd suggest to disable the alarm irq while setting the time. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it