From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932412AbVHMXnc (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:43:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932415AbVHMXnc (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:43:32 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54187 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932412AbVHMXnb (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:43:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:43:22 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Christoph Hellwig , Henrik Brix Andersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Message-ID: <20050813234322.GA30563@suse.de> References: <1123969015.13656.13.camel@sponge.fungus> <20050813232519.GA20256@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050813232519.GA20256@infradead.org> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > Here's a patch for unifying the watchdog device node name > > to /dev/watchdog as expected by most user-space applications. > > > > Please CC: me on replies as I am not subscribed to LKML. > > Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't > have any relation with the name of the device node. It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev