On Fri 2008-11-28 16:40:35, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 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. I'm bad at polishing, but I'll add short explanation. -- (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
