Re: Document sysfs interface to RTC system wakeup

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:15:24 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +How to use /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/wakealarm
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +This file takes the seconds since epoch to enable a wake event at the
> +specified time.

More documentation is cool.  In this case, though, I'm left with an
immediate question: *why* am I interested in wakealarm?  Reading
through, I eventually figure out that it can maybe be used to get a
system to start up at some point in the future, maybe.  It seems like
that should be said at the outset.

Also; why do I want to migrate from /proc/acpi/alarm?

jon
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