linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events

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Message-ID: <20101018141056.0b916878@linux.lan.towertech.it>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:10:56 +0200
From:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for
 events

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:38:53 -0700
John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.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 ;)

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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