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diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
index 025c60a17a4a..90dfa0df747a 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -246,6 +246,15 @@ static int rtc_dev_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
/* if the driver does not provide the ioctl interface
* or if that particular ioctl was not implemented
* (-ENOIOCTLCMD), we will try to emulate here.
+ *
+ * Drivers *SHOULD NOT* provide ioctl implementations
+ * for these requests. Instead, provide methods to
+ * support the following code, so that the RTC's main
+ * features are accessible without using ioctls.
+ *
+ * RTC and alarm times will be in UTC, by preference,
+ * but dual-booting with MS-Windows implies RTCs must
+ * use the local wall clock time.
*/
switch (cmd) {