Re: [PATCH] mc146818rtc.h for user land programs (2.4.10)

Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:33:49 -0700

Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> The following patch is for linux-2.4.10
> This is needed for user land programs to use the
> mc146818rtc.h header.
>
> --- include/linux/mc146818rtc.h.orig Wed Sep 26 23:43:00 2001
> +++ include/linux/mc146818rtc.h Wed Sep 26 23:43:25 2001
> @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
> #include <linux/spinlock.h> /* spinlock_t */
> #include <asm/mc146818rtc.h> /* register access macros */
>
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> extern spinlock_t rtc_lock; /* serialize CMOS RAM access */
> +#endif

I can see arguing with Alan about the inclusion of linux-kernel headers
in some cases, but I don't see anything in this file that looks like a
user-space program could use. Which part of this file do the user
space programs need?

Ben

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