Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] RTC: Class device support for persistent clock

[Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>]

On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:24:15 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:


> Ooh, shiny -- you saved me the trouble of doing this (and hopefully also
> the trouble of looking through it to check whether all the callers of
> read_persistent_clock() can sleep, etc.?)

 I knew you would have liked that patch :)
 
> One thing I was going to do in rtc_update_persistent_clock() was make it
> use mutex_trylock() for grabbing rtc->lock. We go to great lengths to
> make sure we're updating the clock at the correct time -- we don't want
> to be doing things which delay the update. So we should probably just
> use mutex_trylock() and abort the update (this time) if it fails.

 agreable. 
 
> I was also thinking of holding the RTC_HCTOSYS device open all the time,
> too. If it's a problem that you then couldn't unload the module, perhaps
> a sysfs interface to set/change/clear which device is used for this?

 mm.. let's keep it easy. the chances the rtc is in use
 are usually real low.
 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

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