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

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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:34:15 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
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 Mon, 2010-10-18 at 14:10 +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 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 ;)

Heh, well, that's a good bit less resistance then I thought I'd get :)

Not that I'm complaining, but Is there anyone else in the RTC community
that you'd recommend getting feedback from on a change this large? I
just want to try to get any back-to-the-blackboard level feedback early
on if possible.

Also, are there any other RTC test cases (other then whats in
Documentation/rtc.txt) that you might recommend to help insure things
are bug-free before submission?

thanks
-john


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