From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bernie Thompson <bhthompson@chromium.org>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dianders@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: add in ability to push out an existing wakealarm using sysfs
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:55:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522145529.a03f3344f58b4b9ddacb25b7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368233611-1690-1-git-send-email-bhthompson@chromium.org>
On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:53:31 -0700 Bernie Thompson <bhthompson@chromium.org> wrote:
> This adds in the ability for the rtc sysfs code to handle += characters
> at the beginning of a wakealarm setting string. This will allow the user to
> attempt to push out an existing wakealarm by a provided amount.
>
> In the case that the += characters are provided but the alarm is not active
> -EVINVAL is returned.
>
Well that sounds useful, but I'm not personally in a position to
confidently judge whether it's useful enough to merge the patch. The
changelog doesn't make a compelling case and everybody else has chosen
to sit on their hands.
So I really don't know what to do with this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-11 0:53 Bernie Thompson
2013-05-22 21:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-05-22 22:05 ` Bernie Thompson
2013-05-22 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
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