Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:25:59 -0600
Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 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.

 No mechanism, an rtc is actually supposed to be running. You may want
 to export a sysfs attribute from the ds1672 driver to inform
 user space.

 I can't check it right now, but iirc I enable the ds1672 counting
 bit in the driver init code.

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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