On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:18 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:10 +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: > > I wonder why /dev/rtc isn't used more than it is now. > > Because sleep/wakeup, poll, etc are much nicer interfaces than /dev/rtc.
any sane programmer will use slee/wakeup, poll etc. with /dev/rtc :) the hairy part is just setting up the interrupt freq on the RTC. the big problem with the RTC is the restriction to power-of-2 HZ settings. not very useful for a lot of things.
