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From: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:10:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018141056.0b916878@linux.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287189535-24649-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:38:53 -0700
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:

> This patch reworks a large portion of the generic RTC code
> to in-effect virtualize the rtc interrupt code.
> 
> The current RTC interface is very much a raw hardware interface.
> Via the proc, /dev/, or sysfs interfaces, applications can set
> the hardware to trigger interrupts in one of three modes:

 [...]


 If everything still works after all those changes,
 it seems a good thing to me ;)

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16  0:38 [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] A posix clock/timer interface to the RTC John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38   ` [PATCH 2/6] [RFC] Introduce timerlist infrastructure John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38     ` [PATCH 3/6] [RFC] hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use " John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38       ` [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38         ` [PATCH 5/6] [RFC] RTC: Remove UIE emulation John Stultz
2010-10-16  0:38           ` [PATCH 6/6] [RFC] RTC: Add posix clock/timer interface John Stultz
2010-10-18 12:10         ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2010-10-19  1:34           ` [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events john stultz
2010-10-18 14:27   ` [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids Richard Cochran
2010-10-18 18:01     ` john stultz
2010-10-18 20:44     ` Thomas Gleixner

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