From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:01:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110619110141.1ac221f1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106182117.49026.arnd@arndb.de>
> Hmm, I'm not sure about this one. It does make the conversion
> of existing drivers easier but doesn't encourage doing a good
> job there.
It's not ultimately about conversion. A lot of watchdogs have interfaces
that are not quite generic, extra requirements and custom interfaces. The
ioctl interface is needed for that, not for conversions.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 17:27 Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 19:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 10:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-06-19 11:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-22 20:05 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
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