Re: [RFE PATCH 2/2] rtc, add write functionality to sysfs

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:03:01 -0500
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> AFAICT there is no way for me to "test" or use the write from userspace.
> hwclock uses the SET_TIME ioctl, which is a different code path AFAICT.
> 
> I'd like to be at least able to test this stuff when we make changes to it so I
> think having write functionality for date & time is worthwhile.
> 
> For me, I'm using these to heavily test ntp and ntpdate over system reboots.

 the point is: who will benefit from this patch? users? distributions?
 embedded distributions? if it's useful, then just go for it.


> OOC, Alessandro, why is the date & time split into two fields?

 because date and time are two different things and we expect
 sysfs to preferably have one value for each entry.

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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