Re: sleepy linux self-test

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* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Plus, the way you're doing it now is violating the locking protocol 
> > used by that driver.
> 
> Yep, you are right, but that is the easy issue to fix. There's hard 
> issue: I need
> 
> struct rtc_device *rtc
> 
> for the rtc that can be used for system resume, and I'd like to get it 
> without violating too many layers. How to do that?
> 
> Ideally, I need 
> 
> set_alarm(int)
> 
> ...that will magically pick the right rtc device to talk to, and set 
> alarm on it. I don't see how to implement it with current code.

i'd really love to have a /dev/rtc device compatibility APIs, both 
inside and outside the kernel. I really dont know why the new RTC code 
does not do it - why does it put up artificial anti-adoption barriers to 
make it harder to migrate to the new code?

	Ingo
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