From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
To: "Koyamangalath, Abhilash" <abhilash.kv@ti.com>
Cc: "Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti.com>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: watchdog pdev id set to -1
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:12:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218111237.GE10489@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FCCFB4CDC6E5564B9182F639FC35608703700616CE@dbde02.ent.ti.com>
Hi,
(don't top-post)
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:39:48PM +0530, Koyamangalath, Abhilash wrote:
> I understand, but is there a subtle reason why are starting from
> an erroneous-looking -1 rather than a more natural 0 (or 1 ?).
-1 means no ID. The IDs are zero-based, so we can't use zero. Just
change that value and see how things change on sysfs and dmesg then you
will know what I'm talking about. That's just an implementation decision
of using -1 to signify "no ID needed".
--
balbi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 10:41 watchdog pdev id set to -1 Koyamangalath, Abhilash
2011-02-18 10:56 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-02-18 11:09 ` Koyamangalath, Abhilash
2011-02-18 11:12 ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2011-02-22 21:59 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-01 0:35 ` Kevin Hilman
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