From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754615AbYH0Vjp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:39:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752772AbYH0Vji (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:39:38 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48320 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752690AbYH0Vjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:39:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Wim Van Sebroeck cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: v2.6.27-rc4 watchdog patches In-Reply-To: <20080826203648.GC2763@infomag.infomag.iguana.be> Message-ID: References: <20080826203648.GC2763@infomag.infomag.iguana.be> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 24 ++ > drivers/watchdog/Makefile | 3 > drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c | 2 > drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 93 +++++----- > drivers/watchdog/mpc8xx_wdt.c | 170 ------------------ > drivers/watchdog/mpc8xxx_wdt.c | 11 + > drivers/watchdog/pc87413_wdt.c | 1 > drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c | 344 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/watchdog/rdc321x_wdt.c | 285 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 16 - > 10 files changed, 714 insertions(+), 235 deletions(-) Ok, I'm going to ask you to not send new watchdog drivers after the merge window. There really is no upside. Nobody is going to be inconvenienced by a lack of a watchdog driver int he same way that it's a problem if a disk driver or a network driver is missing. I pulled it, but please consider new drivers to be a "merge window only" thing in the future. Linus