From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751050AbVH2LNp (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:13:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751062AbVH2LNp (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:13:45 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5257 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751050AbVH2LNo (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:13:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:13:42 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Henrik Brix Andersen Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Message-ID: <20050829111342.GA2861@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Henrik Brix Andersen , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1123969015.13656.13.camel@sponge.fungus> <1123970037.13656.16.camel@sponge.fungus> <1125311556.20765.65.camel@sponge.fungus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1125311556.20765.65.camel@sponge.fungus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 15:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Doesn't seem to be serious enough to be worth it at this late stage in the > > 2.6.13 game. Can you re-send after I do a release? > > Resending as requested: > > 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. Again, please fix the miscdev code to no pass .name to the dev routines. The miscdev name should be a description and has nothing to do with a device node name.