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Commit: 108b4c3638be251d6b42eaa633e8a6b852b960f0
Parent: fcbaa088fc8625381bd1096bc2eedc4f58a1572c
Author: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 14 16:58:43 2007 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Nov 14 18:45:37 2007 -0800
rtc: tweak driver documentation for rtc periodic
The max_user_freq member is not really meant for RTC drivers to modify, so
update the rtc documentation so drivers writers know what is expected of
them when handling periodic events.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/rtc.txt | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rtc.txt b/Documentation/rtc.txt
index c931d61..e20b19c 100644
--- a/Documentation/rtc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rtc.txt
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ driver returns ENOIOCTLCMD. Some common examples:
* RTC_IRQP_SET, RTC_IRQP_READ: the irq_set_freq function will be called
to set the frequency while the framework will handle the read for you
since the frequency is stored in the irq_freq member of the rtc_device
- structure. Also make sure you set the max_user_freq member in your
- initialization routines so the framework can sanity check the user
- input for you.
+ structure. Your driver needs to initialize the irq_freq member during
+ init. Make sure you check the requested frequency is in range of your
+ hardware in the irq_set_freq function. If you cannot actually change
+ the frequency, just return -ENOTTY.
If all else fails, check out the rtc-test.c driver!
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