no generic way to get the RTC battery status within an application. So add an ioctl to read the status bit. The idea is that the bit is set once a low voltage is detected. It stays there until it is reset using the RTC_VL_CLR ioctl. Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein Cc: Alessandro Zummo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds