From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
Cc: wingel@nano-systems.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:04:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030213160430.GC2070@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045150488.1009.3.camel@vmhack>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:34:35AM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> 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.
My interpretation of legacy devices differs. I believe they are
onboard devices that we've had since just after the dinosaurs died.
FDC controller, dma controller, parport etc..
A plugin watchdog card doesn't fit this description.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 3:16 [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 4:27 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-02-13 7:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 11:55 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 15:34 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 15:51 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:07 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 18:31 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 21:12 ` Scott Murray
2003-02-13 22:58 ` Matt Porter
2003-02-13 22:05 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 0:47 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 15:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 19:02 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:12 ` Joel Becker
2003-02-14 13:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-14 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-02-13 18:20 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 18:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 23:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 23:17 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-15 1:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-15 8:27 ` Cort Dougan
2003-02-15 9:13 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 21:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-15 20:37 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 12:42 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-15 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-19 5:24 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-20 21:19 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-20 22:36 ` Alan Cox
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