On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 01:39:29 -0500
Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What the code implements is actually an interface, so this should
> > be the riht place. It is also fully optional, everything could work
> > without it. Probably the interface implementation hasn't all the primitives
> > to handle this kind of work, but I'm not willing to go into that right now ;)
> >
>
> Yes, it is an interface. What I am trying to say - is it a main interface?
> What is the preferred, most efficient way to interface with RTC? If it is
> through this interface it may make sence to fold it into the core. Otherwise
> do what input layer does and have interface create another class device which
> reprsesents your /dev node.
I think it depends on what you want to do. On desktop systems is certainly
the dev interface, on some embedded you may want to go via sysfs.
I would keep it that way until the system can react on a change of
the dev attribute.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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