On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:13:20AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Sigh. It's a pity that the RTC dev driver implements a read() method.
> Otherwise I'd urge a scheme like MTRR: read() for humans and ioctl()
> for programmes.
>
> Hm. Is the current rtc_read() method actually used by applications?
To my knowledge no. /dev/rtc implements an ioctl based solution, so
with hwclock(8) installed /proc/rtc represents a useless API duplication.
Ralf
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