On Oct 11 2007 08:51, Rick Niles wrote: > > Maybe I'm way off here, but that seems to be the function to register a RTC > hardware chip with the kernel. I want to use a real-time clock interrupt to > wake up my driver and service the GPS correlator, about every 500ms. Please > let me know if I'm misunderstanding.
You register your hardware, and then the userspace program opens /dev/rtc17 or whatever node is assigned to it, and receives periodic interrupts. At least that's the theory for rtc-cmos. And don't top post. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
