Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:43:05 +0200 | From | Alessandro Zummo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem |
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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.
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Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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