Re: [PATCH] rtc-dev: stop periodic interrupts on device release

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 07:55:21PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>  I'm not sure this is appropriate. sometimes the PIE is used to control
>  external hardware and it doesn't make sense to have an application that's
>  always open to handle that. 
> 
>  Any app should be responsible to release what it has allocated, if appropriate,
>  and not rely on someone else to do on his behalf.

mplayer and aireplay-ng have never done so. And what about crashes? Am I
supposed to create a small "rtcpieoff" applications and make it into all
distributions so that everyone can clean up the mess?

Additionally, it has been a regression against the old rtc and drivers like
rtc-sh do so even today.

-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/
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