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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem
    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.

    --

    Best regards,

    Alessandro Zummo,
    Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy

    http://www.towertech.it

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