Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs

[Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 03:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:16:55PM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote:
>  > Basically, with the help of some watchdog infrastructure code, we could make 
>  > each watchdog device register as a platform_device named watchdog, so for 
>  > every watchdog on the system there is a /sys/devices/legacy/watchdogN/ 
>  > directory created for it.  
> 
> Why legacy ? That seems an odd place to be putting these.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
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> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs

The watchdogN devices show up under the "legacy" directory because
they are platform devices.  From reading the driver-model documentation,
I believe that platform devices are the correct way of categorizing
watchdog devices.

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Platform devices
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Platform devices are devices that typically appear as autonomous
entities in the system. This includes legacy port-based devices and
host bridges to peripheral buses. 


Platform drivers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Drivers for platform devices have typically very simple and
unstructured. Either the device was present at a particular I/O port
and the driver was loaded, or there was not. There was no possibility
of hotplugging or alternative discovery besides probing at a specific
I/O address and expecting a specific response.

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