Re: [PATCH] don't reset alarm interrupt on RTC

Tim Hockin (thockin@sun.com)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:34:57 -0800


Patrick Mochel wrote:

> - tmp &= ~RTC_AIE;
> + //tmp &= ~RTC_AIE;
> tmp &= ~RTC_UIE;
> CMOS_WRITE(tmp, RTC_CONTROL);
> CMOS_READ(RTC_INTR_FLAGS);

> Why would you want to unconditionally enable this interrupt?

We don't unconditionally set it, we just leave it enabled (the code was
uncoditionally UNsetting it). There are ioctl()s to set/unset PIE, AIE,
UIE.

> And how do you set the alarm time?

ioctl(fd, RTC_ALM_SET);

> But, I don't think this should be enabled by default.

if anything, our patch is not correct ENOUGH. none of AIE, PIE, or UIE,
should be molested by rtc_release().

-- 
Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com
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