Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:39:54 +0100 | Subject | Question about the RTC device |
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I have a few questions about the new RTC device in 1.3.89:
First, what is the advantage of using RTC interrupts and read as opposed to using itimers (frequencies below 100 Hz assumed)?
Secondly, the RTC ports are no longer requested in the setup code, but has been moved into the RTC driver. Is the kernel still updating the RTC clock, even if the RTC device is not configured?
Finally wouldn't it be wise to check the result of the request_region (maybe just to find some resource conflict)?
Besides the questions I have one wish. Wouldn't it be nice to use some internationally agreeable format for date and time that is still easy to read and parse (for /proc/RTC)? I'm strongly thinking about the format RCS uses (1996/04/15 12:43:44).
Ulrich
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