Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:17:51 -0600
Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  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.
> 
> Any suggestions on what to call it?

 you can either use the name of the bit, according to the datasheet,
 or "enabled".

> >  I can't check it right now, but iirc I enable the ds1672 counting
> >  bit in the driver init code.
> 
> Hmm, I didn't see that.  I was going to send a patch to have  
> ds1672_set_mmss() always enable the counting bit.

 please do. I'd appreciate if you can also add a check 
 for this bit on driver init and a printk to warn
 the user if it is disabled.

 thanks!
 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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