Re: New RTC drivers don't provide the sysctl to set max user frequency

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 20:27:23 EST


On Feb 5, 2008 5:54 PM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is every application that uses /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
> supposed to be updated to use the new /sys interface?

IMHO the default should be increased to 1024 - the current default of
64 dates back to the 486 era. This would eliminate the need for a lot
of apps to touch it at all.

Unprivileged users have lots of other ways to generate more than 1024
interrupts/second anyway.

Lee
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