Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759979AbXFVRew (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751946AbXFVRep (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:34:45 -0400 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:52802 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753325AbXFVReo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:34:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:34:31 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Tino Keitel Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Yoichi Yuasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm Message-ID: <20070622193431.71bed8b5@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <20070619172429.GA30990@dose.home.local> References: <20070615063308.GA18089@dose.home.local> <20070615155904.1d1da892.yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> <20070615070319.GA19455@dose.home.local> <20070619142404.42dcdc3c@inspiron> <20070619172429.GA30990@dose.home.local> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 41 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:24:29 +0200 Tino Keitel wrote: > > > Where is the documentation that describes that I have to disable it > > > first, and how to do this? A migration document for > > > /proc/acpi/alarm users would be nice, too. > > > > Well, I guess there is no documentation. Maybe we could add > > a dev_warn with an explicit message. > > Isn't it somewhat ridiculous to plan the removal of a feature for > several months, and then replace it with something that behaves > differently without any documentation? > > I still wonder how 'cat /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/wakealarm' is expected to > behave. With 2.6.22-rc5, I get this: > > $ echo 1182351177 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm > $ cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm > 2051644873 > > There seems to be a constant difference of 869984896 seconds. Is this a > bug? I'll have to check that. Sorry for the delay, i've been a bit busy. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/