From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758198Ab1D1Muy (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:50:54 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:51943 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752403Ab1D1Mux (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:50:53 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: "Weil, Oren jer" Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] staging/mei: AMT Watchdog Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:50:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.37; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Greg KH , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "david@woodhou.se" References: <1303900057-21694-1-git-send-email-oren.jer.weil@intel.com> <20110427150738.GE24596@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104281450.42451.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:rJaxDHxhyefqU4uiKLUo9qMEowNtv5KWVcFSJu66xJo nIKvguWuF4t+KpfY+9rVUXmcZiKH9XY6yadzOyKnjWHmC5Zd8H YJYA0wbqLKWChzWahw2tCsXTK6POURbV3Zq8YSpNf+Yx0XBMYg gQwF+vx4T3fygv8HodzBnqTrix5poYZ5BBJhwzeSKGbvV4oOE5 /V1PO3fxKG/2XikscX9WA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 April 2011, Weil, Oren jer wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:53:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> I still think this should be a regular watchdog driver using the > >> drivers/watchdog user interface. > > > >I agree, Oren, if you are going to insist on doing things this way, you had > >better describe why you are ignoring the existing kernel interfaces > >provided. > > we are not going to ignore the existing interfaces, it is one of our items > in the TODO list. > You can see the we move all of the Watchdog code to a single file so it > would easy to us to take it later to other driver. > Another Item on our TODO list is to expose Kernel function that equivalent > to user interface so kernel clients > can access FW features/clients. Ok, fair enough. Please put important information like this into the changelog next time. Also, your TODO file seems to be missing form the submission. Arnd