Hi! > > > Create /sys/power/alarm. > > > The way it works is exactly the same as /proc/acpi/alarm. > > > I.e. "#echo yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss >/sys/power/alarm" supports existing absolute time. > > > And "#echo +yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss >/sys/power/alarm" supports a duration. > > > > NAK. /proc/acpi/alarm is a mess, and this just moves it to /sysfs. > > 'One value per file', please. > > Sort of like the appended patch, instead ... which doesn't need to know a > thing about ACPI. This is what I suggested in response to an earlier patch > from Paul Sokolovsky. Yes, I suspected your patches would be solving this one. > - It can be written with an alarm time in the future, again seconds > since the POSIX epoch, which enables the alarm. > > - It can be written with an alarm time not in the future (such as 0, > the start of the POSIX epoch) to disable the alarm. ...and it is certainly way better than original (parsing) solution. ACK. (What about periodic alarms? I guess we want to simply forget about them? Doc*/ file would be nice, but you probably have that in separate patch.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
