On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:53, David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 3:40 am, Zhang Rui wrote: > > > > if /sys/class/rtc/rtcN/alarm can provide the same function, it's great > > and I'll drop patch#03. I'll also mark /proc/acpi/alarm as deprecated if > > David's patches are merged. :) > > One help there would be someone from the ACPI team signing off on > patch #3 of the series I sent, which teaches ACPI how to export the > extra registers to the rtc-cmos driver. done. > There will be another ACPI patch at some point, actually kicking > in hooks needed to handle system wakeup, but getting the PC into > the RTC class framework is an important first step. > > Once there's a proper replacement for /proc/acpi/alarm it becomes > a candidate for removal. Maybe sooner rather than later, unless > some users for that old file turn up... Sometimes that file's syntax is useful -- wake up at 7:00, but those testing suspend-resume want to wake up 1 minute in the future now mater what time it is...
