linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:19:05 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present

2011/6/22 John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>:
> Toralf Förster and Richard Weinberger noted that if there is
> no RTC device, the alarm timers core prints out an annoying
> "ALARM timers will not wake from suspend" message.
>
> This warning has been removed in a previous patch, however
> the issue still remains:  The original idea was to support
> alarm timers even if there was no rtc device, as long as the
> system didn't go into suspend.
>
> However, after further consideration, communicating to the application
> that alarmtimers are not fully functional seems like the better
> solution.
>
> So this patch makes it so we return -ENOTSUPP to any posix _ALARM
> clockid calls if there is no backing RTC device on the system.
>
> Further this changes the behavior where when there is no rtc device
> we will check for one on clock_getres, clock_gettime, timer_create,
> and timer_nsleep instead of on suspend.
>
> CC: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
> CC: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at

Ahhh, the missing ">" explains why I didn't receive this mail. :-)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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