Hi Has anybody thought of extending the functionality available in kernel/ drivers/rtc/alarm.c regarding allowing kernel drivers to use the utility to be notified when a certain time has elapsed although the CPU the kernel is running on is power collapsed?
One could for example have a device that uses a HW watchdog that needs to be kicked periodically to keep certain functionality running. The idea is to wake the CPU up periodically from RTC and then perform a watchdog kick and then let the CPU go down again. I am aware that the alarm.c only interfaces user-space today and that there is an alarm manager in Java that sorts the time that should wake up the CPU nearest in future. I was thinking to add similar to the kernel where this new part sorts the time requested by user-space and time requested by kernel drivers and set the time nearest in future to expire to the RTC. If this idea is "no way this is stupid and how could you even think like this" can you recommend any other method that might work? Br Imre -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-kernel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
