Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 3/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI sleep "alarm" attribute in sysfs

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On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:42:22PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 3:35 am, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > 
> > Create /sys/power/alarm.
> 
> Urg.  This doesn't work with the RTC framework, which accepts the reality
> that some systems have multiple RTCs ... /sys/class/rtc/rtcN/alarm is a
> much more appropriate location for that RTC's alarm.

Especially since /proc/acpi/alarm is just banging on the RTC registers 
- the only ACPI thing about it is that the FADT can expose whether or 
not the extended registers exist, and then making sure that the GPE is 
enabled.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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