Messages in this thread |  | | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] RTC subsystem | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:17:51 -0600 |
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On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 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.
Any suggestions on what to call it?
> I can't check it right now, but iirc I enable the ds1672 counting > bit in the driver init code.
Hmm, I didn't see that. I was going to send a patch to have ds1672_set_mmss() always enable the counting bit.
- kumar
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