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

From: Jaroslav Kysela (perex@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 15:56:09 EST


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:

> 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);

We need also a callback called at interrupt time.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com

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