Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote:

>  RTC subsystem.
>
>  Original RFC available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/20/220
>
>  Changelog. Between parentheses is the name
>  of the person that suggested the change.
>
>  - license and tristate for rtc-lib.c (Andrian Bunk)
>  - added driver for ST M48T86
>
>  The following patches have been incorporated:
>
>   none
>
>  The following items are in the TODO:
>
>  - Documentation of exported functions
>  - Handling of max_user_freq
>  - 11 min ntp update mode

Alessandro, is there any mechanism to determine if an RTC is enabled  
through /dev or sysfs?

The DS1672 has an enable counting bit in its I2C register interface.   
I can have a set time enable it if its not, however I'd like to  
report to user space the fact that its not enabled.

thanks

- kuamr
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