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| author | David Brownell | 2007-11-30 22:42:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2007-12-03 13:29:47 +0100 |
| commit | 2148b05182c755d74fd17b087f3ff37904df0b8c (patch) | |
| tree | c003aeb741dd17b01180e4be01c963a202c1c8fd /sys-utils/rtcwake.8 | |
| parent | blockdev: add --getsz to blockdev.8 (diff) | |
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rtcwake: misc cleanups
Cleanups for rtcwake:
- Minor doc updates: highlight the framebuffer problem,
give correct history of this code
- Improve debug output
- Fix some linelength bugs
Note that this code predated the sysfs "wakealarm" mechanism, and
works around several now-fixed bugs in the kernel RTC framework.
Nowadays it would make sense to make this program use only the sysfs
interface to the RTC, using "since_epoch" instead of RTC_RD_TIME and
"wakealarm" instead of the four other ioctls. That could simplify
the mess involved in timezone handling.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/rtcwake.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/rtcwake.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8 b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8 index dde284417..c06fb2117 100644 --- a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8 +++ b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8 @@ -76,15 +76,20 @@ is the time in seconds since 1970-01-01, 00:00 UTC. Use the Use standby state \fImode\fP. Valid values are \fIstandby\fP, \fImem\fP, \fIdisk\fP and \fIon\fP (no suspend). The default is \fIstandby\fP. +.SH NOTES +Some PC systems can't currently exit sleep states such as \fImem\fP +using only the kernel code accessed by this driver. +They need help from userspace code to make the framebuffer work again. .SH HISTORY -The program first appeared as kernel commit message for Linux 2.6 in the GIT +The program was posted several times on LKML and other lists +before appearing in kernel commit message for Linux 2.6 in the GIT commit 87ac84f42a7a580d0dd72ae31d6a5eb4bfe04c6d. .SH AVAILABILITY The rtcwake command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. .SH AUTHOR -The program was written by David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> and improved by -Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>. +The program was written by David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> +and improved by Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>. .SH COPYRIGHT This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. |