On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 :-). And these are the statements that (in slightly more polished terms) should be in your doc ;-), in order to address Jonathan's quite reasonable questions. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.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
