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authorKim, Milo <Milo.Kim@ti.com>2012-10-04 17:13:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-06 03:05:01 +0900
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rtc-proc: permit the /proc/driver/rtc device to use other devices
To get time information via /proc/driver/rtc, only the first device (rtc0) is used. If the rtcN (eg. rtc1 or rtc2) is used for the system clock, there is no way to get information of rtcN via /proc/driver/rtc. With this patch, the time data can be retrieved from the system clock RTC. If the RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE is not defined, then rtc0 is used by default. Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -119,8 +119,9 @@ three different userspace interfaces:
* /sys/class/rtc/rtcN ... sysfs attributes support readonly
access to some RTC attributes.
- * /proc/driver/rtc ... the first RTC (rtc0) may expose itself
- using a procfs interface. More information is (currently) shown
+ * /proc/driver/rtc ... the system clock RTC may expose itself
+ using a procfs interface. If there is no RTC for the system clock,
+ rtc0 is used by default. More information is (currently) shown
here than through sysfs.
The RTC Class framework supports a wide variety of RTCs, ranging from those