From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161459AbWG2E2r (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:28:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161460AbWG2E2r (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:28:47 -0400 Received: from adsl-69-232-92-238.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net ([69.232.92.238]:45020 "EHLO gnuppy.monkey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161459AbWG2E2r (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:28:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:28:20 -0700 To: Jim Gettys Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Neil Horman , Dave Airlie , Segher Boessenkool , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.zummo@towertech.it, jg@freedesktop.org, Keith Packard , "Bill Huey (hui)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTC: Add mmap method to rtc character driver Message-ID: <20060729042820.GA16133@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20060725194733.GJ4608@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> <21d7e9970607251304n5681bf44gc751c21fd79be99d@mail.gmail.com> <44C67E1A.7050105@zytor.com> <20060725204736.GK4608@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> <1153861094.1230.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44C6875F.4090300@zytor.com> <1153862087.1230.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44C68AA8.6080702@zytor.com> <1153863542.1230.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1153863542.1230.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Bill Huey (hui) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:39:01PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > Keith's the expert (who wrote the smart scheduler): I'd take a wild ass > guess that 10ms is good enough. > > Maybe people can keep him on the cc list this time... Not to poop on people's parade, but the last time I looked /dev/rtc was a single instance device, right ? If this reasoning is true, then mplayer and other apps that want to open it can't. What's the story with this ? bill