[Question] rtc wake behavior and sysfs

From: Peter Geis
Date: Mon Oct 05 2020 - 09:13:28 EST


Good Morning,

While testing suspend to ram on the Ouya, I encountered an interesting
issue with the rtc-tps65910 driver.
Attempting to use rtc-wake on the default configuration returned:
rtcwake: /dev/rtc0 not enabled for wakeup events
This is due to:
eb5eba4ef722 drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c: enable/disable wake in suspend/resume
This commit changed this driver's behavior to not enable wakeup by
default, but enables it when entering sleep mode.
This seems to be odd behavior to me.
Looking at a few other rtc drivers show they simply enable themselves
as wakeup sources by default.

I also found the sysfs entries are at /sys/devices/ ..
/tps65910-rtc/power but are missing at /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/power/

I have two questions.
- Should the sysfs wakeup entries be missing at /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/power/ ?
- Shouldn't a rtc be enabled as a wakeup source by default?

Thank you for your time.

Very Respectfully,
Peter Geis