[PATCH] rtc: small documentation update
Rtc driver documentation update
* Mention the max-user-freq control file.
* Add missing header in example code.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/rtc.txt b/Documentation/rtc.txt
index 95d17b3..2a58f98 100644
--- a/Documentation/rtc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rtc.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
Programming and/or enabling interrupt frequencies greater than 64Hz is
only allowed by root. This is perhaps a bit conservative, but we don't want
an evil user generating lots of IRQs on a slow 386sx-16, where it might have
-a negative impact on performance. Note that the interrupt handler is only
-a few lines of code to minimize any possibility of this effect.
+a negative impact on performance. This 64Hz limit can be changed by writing
+a different value to /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq. Note that the
+interrupt handler is only a few lines of code to minimize any possibility
+of this effect.
Also, if the kernel time is synchronized with an external source, the
kernel will write the time back to the CMOS clock every 11 minutes. In
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@
*/
#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
#include <linux/rtc.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
