Re: [RFE PATCH 2/2] rtc, add write functionality to sysfs

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 02/25/2013 09:58 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:03:01 -0500
> Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>
>> AFAICT there is no way for me to "test" or use the write from userspace.
>> hwclock uses the SET_TIME ioctl, which is a different code path AFAICT.
>>
>> I'd like to be at least able to test this stuff when we make changes to it so I
>> think having write functionality for date & time is worthwhile.
>>
>> For me, I'm using these to heavily test ntp and ntpdate over system reboots.
> 
>  the point is: who will benefit from this patch? users? distributions?
>  embedded distributions? if it's useful, then just go for it.

This can be dropped IMO.

P.

> 
> 
>> OOC, Alessandro, why is the date & time split into two fields?
> 
>  because date and time are two different things and we expect
>  sysfs to preferably have one value for each entry.
> 
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