Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs

[Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:04, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> On 13 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 03:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:16:55PM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> > >  > Basically, with the help of some watchdog infrastructure code, we could make 
> > >  > each watchdog device register as a platform_device named watchdog, so for 
> > >  > every watchdog on the system there is a /sys/devices/legacy/watchdogN/ 
> > >  > directory created for it.  
> > > 
> > > Why legacy ? That seems an odd place to be putting these.
> > > 
> > > 		Dave
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> > > | SuSE Labs
> > 
> > The watchdogN devices show up under the "legacy" directory because
> > they are platform devices.  From reading the driver-model documentation,
> > I believe that platform devices are the correct way of categorizing
> > watchdog devices.
> > 
> > <pasting from Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt>
> > 
> > Platform devices
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> You could regard them as 'system' devices, and have them show up in 
> devices/sys/, which would make more sense than 'legacy'.
> 
> 	-pat

Ok, system device is the winner.

    -rustyl