> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:15:24 +0100 > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +How to use /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/wakealarm > > +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > +This file takes the seconds since epoch to enable a wake event at the > > +specified time. > > More documentation is cool. In this case, though, I'm left with an > immediate question: *why* am I interested in wakealarm? Reading > through, I eventually figure out that it can maybe be used to get a > system to start up at some point in the future, maybe. It seems like > that should be said at the outset. You can suspend/power down your machine, and it will power itself up at appropriate time. > Also; why do I want to migrate from /proc/acpi/alarm? Because /proc/acpi/alarm is ugly hack that is going to go away :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
