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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c index 025c60a17a4..90dfa0df747 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c @@ -246,6 +246,15 @@ static int rtc_dev_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, /* if the driver does not provide the ioctl interface * or if that particular ioctl was not implemented * (-ENOIOCTLCMD), we will try to emulate here. + * + * Drivers *SHOULD NOT* provide ioctl implementations + * for these requests. Instead, provide methods to + * support the following code, so that the RTC's main + * features are accessible without using ioctls. + * + * RTC and alarm times will be in UTC, by preference, + * but dual-booting with MS-Windows implies RTCs must + * use the local wall clock time. */ switch (cmd) { |