From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754490Ab0JRMKt (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:10:49 -0400 Received: from elettra.colt-to.towertech.it ([213.215.222.70]:49577 "EHLO smtp.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754107Ab0JRMKs (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:10:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:10:56 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: John Stultz Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events Message-ID: <20101018141056.0b916878@linux.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <1287189535-24649-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> References: <1287189535-24649-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1287189535-24649-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1287189535-24649-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1287189535-24649-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1287189535-24649-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:38:53 -0700 John Stultz 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