From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754816Ab1LFV4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:56:14 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:43603 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706Ab1LFV4N (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:56:13 -0500 X-Auth-Info: vzbUeQPNRxh6zpwH/U6Zpuc6Ez0vs0eQ7Dy33iOmI4Q= To: Wolfram Sang cc: Heiko Schocher , Vitaly Bordug , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers, char: add U-Boot bootcount driver MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: <20111206215056.GD14154@pengutronix.de> References: <1322991921-21096-1-git-send-email-hs@denx.de> <20111204114741.GA5788@pengutronix.de> <4EDCD7B2.5030409@denx.de> <20111206215056.GD14154@pengutronix.de> Comments: In-reply-to Wolfram Sang message dated "Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:50:56 +0100." Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:56:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20111206215609.5D1FF1A32820@gemini.denx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Wolfram, In message <20111206215056.GD14154@pengutronix.de> you wrote: > > bootcount itself is not a device. It is a feature of certain devices. And that > needs to be implemented; possibly generic enough that it can work for register > based, i2c based, and so forth, accesses. If "boot counter" is not a good name for such a device, then what name would you suggest? Or do you think a counter (which can be implemented in a number of different ways, depending on hardware specifics) is not a device? What would be such a device, then? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de "How is this place run - is it an anarchy?" "No, I wouldn't say so; it is not that well organised..."