Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 04/10] RTC: Cleanuprtc_class_ops->read_alarm()

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:35:10AM -0800, john stultz wrote:

> Yea. The way I thought about it originally was that you can set an alarm
> and that alarm will fire if the machine is on, suspended or even in some
> cases off.  Then, when the machine is booted (system reset), the state
> of the RTC's alarm should not be trusted.

> Your description of the AIE/UIE having random values aligns with that
> intuition.

This seems rather worrying - it sounds like it might mean that the
device might come up firing spuriously which doesn't seem terribly
clever.

> However, if the expectation is that once set, the alarm should persist
> across any number of reboots, this makes it a bit more complicated.

For an embedded device I'd expect that either nothing about the RTC
would persist (including the time) or everything would.
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