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Message-ID: <20081126170032.GE10157@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:00:32 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com, dl9pf@....de, rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Subject: Re: Document sysfs interface to RTC system wakeup > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:15:24 +0100 > Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote: > > > +How to use /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/wakealarm > > +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > +This file takes the seconds since epoch to enable a wake event at the > > +specified time. > > More documentation is cool. In this case, though, I'm left with an > immediate question: *why* am I interested in wakealarm? Reading > through, I eventually figure out that it can maybe be used to get a > system to start up at some point in the future, maybe. It seems like > that should be said at the outset. You can suspend/power down your machine, and it will power itself up at appropriate time. > Also; why do I want to migrate from /proc/acpi/alarm? Because /proc/acpi/alarm is ugly hack that is going to go away :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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