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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers, char: add U-Boot bootcount driver
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:56:09 +0100
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Dear Wolfram,

In message <20111206215056.GD14154-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> you wrote:
> 
> bootcount itself is not a device. It is a feature of certain devices. And that
> needs to be implemented; possibly generic enough that it can work for register
> based, i2c based, and so forth, accesses.

If "boot counter" is not a good name for such a device, then what name
would you suggest?

Or do you think a counter (which can be implemented in a number of
different ways, depending on hardware specifics) is not a device?
What would be such a device, then?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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