From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:36:23 +0200 Subject: [MPCore Watchdog]: Convert from misc_dev to dynamic device node. In-Reply-To: <20110615190945.GA2518@pulham.picochip.com> References: <20110615190945.GA2518@pulham.picochip.com> Message-ID: <201106152136.23971.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 15 June 2011 21:09:45 Jamie Iles wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Peter Fordham wrote: > > > I've added Wim (watchdog driver maintainer), but I would think that if > > > this change is worth doing then it should be done for all drivers. > > > > Agreed, but today this may be more work than I'm strictly interested in > > doing. If we do decide it's the right thing then I'll look into converting the > > other drivers later. > > So I'm not fully aware of what particular problem this is solving, but > if it is needed for this driver then it should really be done for all of > them. That's probably one for Wim to answer though. Wim posted a > series for a generic watchdog framework a while back[1] but this still > made use of a misc device. Let's first wait until the generic watchdog framework gets merged and the drivers are converted. After that is in, we can discuss further changes. I highly doubt that making an incompatible API change benefits anyone here, but it certainly shouldn't be done for a single driver that is separate from the framework. Arnd