patch-2.4.22 linux-2.4.22/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt

• Lines: 29
• Date: 2003-08-25 04:44:39.000000000 -0700
• Orig file: linux-2.4.21/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
• Orig date: 2001-02-08 16:32:44.000000000 -0800

diff -urN linux-2.4.21/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt linux-2.4.22/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
 to get access to the Time Service offered by EFI version 0.92.
 
 EFI provides 4 calls one can make once the OS is booted: GetTime(),
-SetTime(), GetWakeupTime(), SetWakeupTime() which are all supported by this driver.
-We describe those calls as well the design of the driver in the following
-sections.
+SetTime(), GetWakeupTime(), SetWakeupTime() which are all supported by this
+driver. We describe those calls as well the design of the driver in the
+following sections.
 
 II/ Design Decisions
 
-The original ideas was to provide a very simple  driver to get access to, 
+The original ideas was to provide a very simple driver to get access to, 
 at first, the time of day service. This is required in order to access, in a 
 portable way, the CMOS clock. A program like /sbin/hwclock uses such a clock 
 to initialize the system view of the time during boot.
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 without necessarily impacting any of the user applications. The decoupling
 enables flexibility and permits writing wrapper code is ncase things change.
 
-The driver exposes two interfaces, one via the device file and a set of ioctl()s.
-The other is read-only via the /proc filesystem. 
+The driver exposes two interfaces, one via the device file and a set of
+ioctl()s. The other is read-only via the /proc filesystem. 
 
 As of today we don't offer a /proc/sys interface.