From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:53:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123970037.13656.16.camel@sponge.fungus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123969015.13656.13.camel@sponge.fungus>
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:36 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Here's a patch for unifying the watchdog device node name
> to /dev/watchdog as expected by most user-space applications.
>
> Please CC: me on replies as I am not subscribed to LKML.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
The last patch was accidentally against 2.6.12 - this one is against
2.6.13-rc6.
diff -urp linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:48:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:50:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static struct file_operations ixp2000_wd
static struct miscdevice ixp2000_wdt_miscdev =
{
.minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR,
- .name = "IXP2000 Watchdog",
+ .name = "watchdog",
.fops = &ixp2000_wdt_fops,
};
diff -urp linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:48:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:50:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static struct file_operations ixp4xx_wdt
static struct miscdevice ixp4xx_wdt_miscdev =
{
.minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR,
- .name = "IXP4xx Watchdog",
+ .name = "watchdog",
.fops = &ixp4xx_wdt_fops,
};
diff -urp linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:48:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c 2005-08-13 23:50:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static struct file_operations scx200_wdt
static struct miscdevice scx200_wdt_miscdev = {
.minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR,
- .name = NAME,
+ .name = "watchdog",
.fops = &scx200_wdt_fops,
};
--
Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-13 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 21:36 [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-13 21:53 ` Henrik Brix Andersen [this message]
2005-08-13 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 22:30 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 10:32 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 11:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:15 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-13 23:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:43 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 0:22 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-14 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-18 14:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 3:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 9:03 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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