From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:30:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706193048.GB24576@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110706191710.GO29245@infomag.iguana.be>
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:17:10PM +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(watchdog_register_device);
> >
> > How about making this EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
>
> My opinion: the new framework has been created for 2 reasons:
> 1) consolidation of the code that is being repeated in each driver
> 2) to make it possible to support more then one driver.
> If we want to support more then one driver, then the out-of-tree drivers
> would benefit from using the API. Even the non-GPL ones.
I strongly support Arnd. And if it helps getting out-of-tree drivers into the
tree, great! I'd think most watchdog-drivers are out-of-tree because of
laziness, not because of IP?
Regards,
Wolfram
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 17:19 Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 18:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-20 3:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-22 20:15 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-22 12:24 ` Mark Brown
2011-06-22 19:50 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 13:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 19:27 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-06 19:17 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-06 19:26 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-06 19:30 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2011-06-22 18:28 ` Chris Friesen
2011-06-22 20:25 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
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