From: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
To: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: rtc: add sysfs file permissions
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 23:00:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237d9e0d486da6df6bd6260482bab9f930b319c.1514827586.git.aishpant@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1514827586.git.aishpant@gmail.com>
Annotate the sysfs interface of rtc with file specific permissions
(RO/RW).
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc | 44 ++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
index df2eca7e2e77..5083841b03d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ Date: March 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- RTC-provided date in YYYY-MM-DD format
+ (RO) RTC-provided date in YYYY-MM-DD format
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/hctosys
Date: September 2009
KernelVersion: 2.6.32
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- 1 if the RTC provided the system time at boot via the
+ (RO) 1 if the RTC provided the system time at boot via the
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS kernel option, 0 otherwise
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/max_user_freq
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Date: October 2007
KernelVersion: 2.6.24
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- The maximum interrupt rate an unprivileged user may request
+ (RW) The maximum interrupt rate an unprivileged user may request
from this RTC.
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/name
@@ -41,58 +41,60 @@ Date: March 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- The name of the RTC corresponding to this sysfs directory
+ (RO) The name of the RTC corresponding to this sysfs directory
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/range
Date: January 2018
KernelVersion: 4.16
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- Valid time range for the RTC, as seconds from epoch, formatted
- as [min, max]
+ (RO) Valid time range for the RTC, as seconds from epoch,
+ formatted as [min, max]
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/since_epoch
Date: March 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- RTC-provided time as the number of seconds since the epoch
+ (RO) RTC-provided time as the number of seconds since the epoch
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/time
Date: March 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- RTC-provided time in 24-hour notation (hh:mm:ss)
+ (RO) RTC-provided time in 24-hour notation (hh:mm:ss)
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/*/nvmem
Date: February 2016
KernelVersion: 4.6
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- The non volatile storage exported as a raw file, as described in
- Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
+ (RW) The non volatile storage exported as a raw file, as
+ described in Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/offset
Date: February 2016
KernelVersion: 4.6
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- The amount which the rtc clock has been adjusted in firmware.
- Visible only if the driver supports clock offset adjustment.
- The unit is parts per billion, i.e. The number of clock ticks
- which are added to or removed from the rtc's base clock per
- billion ticks. A positive value makes a day pass more slowly,
- longer, and a negative value makes a day pass more quickly.
+ (RW) The amount which the rtc clock has been adjusted in
+ firmware. Visible only if the driver supports clock offset
+ adjustment. The unit is parts per billion, i.e. The number of
+ clock ticks which are added to or removed from the rtc's base
+ clock per billion ticks. A positive value makes a day pass more
+ slowly, longer, and a negative value makes a day pass more
+ quickly.
What: /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/wakealarm
Date: February 2007
KernelVersion: 2.6.20
Contact: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- The time at which the clock will generate a system wakeup event.
- This is a one shot wakeup event, so must be reset after wake if
- a daily wakeup is required. Format is seconds since the epoch by
- default, or if there's a leading +, seconds in the future, or if
- there is a leading +=, seconds ahead of the current alarm.
+ (RW) The time at which the clock will generate a system wakeup
+ event. This is a one shot wakeup event, so must be reset after
+ wake if a daily wakeup is required. Format is seconds since the
+ epoch by default, or if there's a leading +, seconds in the
+ future, or if there is a leading +=, seconds ahead of the
+ current alarm.
--
2.15.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-01 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-01 17:30 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: rtc: move ioctl to ABI Aishwarya Pant
2018-01-01 17:30 ` Aishwarya Pant [this message]
2018-01-01 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: rtc: move iotcl interface documentation " Aishwarya Pant
2018-01-11 23:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: rtc: move ioctl " Alexandre Belloni
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