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

[John Stultz]

On 02/22/2013 12:55 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 03:43 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> > On 02/14/2013 09:02 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > > /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/date and /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/time currently have
> > > read-only access.  This patch introduces write functionality which will
> > > set the rtc time.
> > >
> > > Usage: echo YYYY-MM-DD > /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/date
> > >          echo HH:MM:SS > /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/time
> > Why do we want to add a new interface here?
> John,
>
> I'm not adding a new interface.  The current date/time interface only handles
> read and I'm introducing write.

Right, but what benefit does that provide?
(I'm not saying there isn't any, its just not clear from your patch why 
this is a good thing.)

Also CC'ing Alessandro for his input.

thanks
-john


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