linux-kernel - Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:59:04 +0900
From:	Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp>
To:	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@....de>
Cc:	yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:33:08 +0200
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@....de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the following strange behaviour with rtc_cmos:
> 
> $ echo 1181934240 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
> $ rmmod rtc_cmos
> $ modprobe rtc_cmos
> $ echo 1181934240 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> $ echo 1181934240 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
> $

If the alarm has already been enabled, you cannot set the next alarm. 
You should disable first.

Yoichi

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