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 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:03:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110619110328.39c0f5e1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106182107.45682.arnd@arndb.de>
> > /* Register the watchdog timer device */
> > res = watchdog_register_device(&wdt_dev);
>
> Why is this a feature of the individual drivers and not of the core?
It's a hardware dependant feature - some watchdogs cannot be stopped once
initialized.
> Maybe it can be in both, so existing drivers don't need to change the user
> interface, but new drivers don't have to provide the option individually
> when you can simply set it for the base module.
Then you'd need an additional interface to specify which watchdog as soon
as we support multiple watchdogs.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 17:25 Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 19:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 10:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-06-19 11:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-19 17:29 ` Mark Lord
2011-06-22 20:13 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-23 14:13 ` Mark Lord
2011-06-24 14:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 19:17 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 19:56 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
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