From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:43:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060328184305.6fe7f1b5@inspiron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4487A3AA-AA9A-4B14-B8E1-7A63AEE711EC@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:25:59 -0600
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> Alessandro, is there any mechanism to determine if an RTC is enabled
> through /dev or sysfs?
>
> The DS1672 has an enable counting bit in its I2C register interface.
> I can have a set time enable it if its not, however I'd like to
> report to user space the fact that its not enabled.
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.
I can't check it right now, but iirc I enable the ds1672 counting
bit in the driver init code.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-18 17:19 Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 01/18] RTC Subsystem, library functions Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-20 19:18 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 02/18] RTC subsystem, ARM cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 03/18] RTC subsystem, ARM Integrator cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 04/18] RTC subsystem, MIPS cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 05/18] RTC subsystem, class Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 06/18] RTC subsystem, I2C cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 07/18] RTC subsystem, I2C driver ids Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 08/18] RTC subsystem, sysfs interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 09/18] RTC subsystem, proc interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 10/18] RTC subsystem, dev interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 11/18] RTC subsystem, X1205 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 12/18] RTC subsystem, test device/driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 13/18] RTC subsystem, DS1672 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:20 ` [PATCH 14/18] RTC subsystem, PCF8563 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:20 ` [PATCH 15/18] RTC subsystem, RS5C372 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:20 ` [PATCH 16/18] RTC subsystem, EP93XX driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:20 ` [PATCH 17/18] RTC subsystem, SA1100/PXA2XX driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-18 17:20 ` [PATCH 18/18] RTC subsystem, M48T86 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 16:43 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2006-03-28 17:17 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 17:51 ` Alessandro Zummo
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