On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:16:34PM +0200, Marek Otahal wrote: >> Hello, >> >> please check and test the code included. I'm either stupid or there is >> something smelly.. >> >> I'm unable to set RTC alarm date to different month and year than now. (time >> and days work ok). I use ioctl and RTC_WKALM_RD/SET flags. >> >> I noticed this when working on rtcwake code, Both util-linux-ng 2.17.2 and >> git. Kernel 2.6.33.2, archlinux latest userland. > > Documentation/rtc.txt: > > Programmers need to understand that the PC/AT functionality is not > always available, and some systems can do much more. That is, the > RTCs use the same API to make requests in both RTC frameworks (using > different filenames of course), but the hardware may not offer the > same functionality. For example, not every RTC is hooked up to an > IRQ, so they can't all issue alarms; and where standard PC RTCs can > only issue an alarm up to 24 hours in the future, other hardware may > be able to schedule one any time in the upcoming century. > > Karel > > -- > Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> > http://karelzak.blogspot.com > Oh, my fault. I didn't realize this, thank you for pointing out. Best regards, Marek -- Marek Otahal :o) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
