Re: Patch - sharing RTC timer between kernel and user space

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> Using the RTC timer is optional. The default timer is system timer, of 
> course.

Who is setting up this timer? This patch can also be done in userspace:

	fd = open("/dev/rtc",...);
	ioctl(alsafd, RTCFD, fd);

in the alsa driver you can do:

	file = fget(fd);
	...
	if (file->f_op && file->f_op->ioctl)
		file->f_op->ioctl(file->f_dentry->d_inode, file, cmd, arg);
	...
	fput(file);

bye, Roman