Re: [PATCH] rtc: disable the alarm in the hardware

[John Stultz]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 11:03 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, the RTC code does not disable the alarm in the hardware.
> 
> This means that after a sequence such as the one below (the files are in the
> RTC sysfs), the box will boot up after 2 minutes even though we've
> asked for the alarm to be turned off.
> 
> 	# echo $((`cat since_epoch`)+120) > wakealarm
> 	# echo 0 > wakealarm
> 	# poweroff
> 
> Fix this by disabling the alarm when there are no timers to run.

Hey Linus,
	Thanks for sending this along! It looks like a good fix to me! I'm a
little amazed this hasn't cropped up sooner.  I'll do some further
testing and then queue it for upstream.

thanks
-john


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