[PATCH] rtc: mxc: avoid disabling interrupts on device close

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 07:16:11 PDT 2017


On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Currently, the IRQs are disabled when the rtc character device is closed.
> This means that the device needs to stay open to get alarms while the usual
> use case will open the device, set the alarm and close the device as is
> done in rtcwake.
>
> Keep the alarm functional on character device release so the platform can
> actually wakeup
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>

Makes sense, thanks:

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>



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