[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

[Paul Davis]

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.