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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gilles Gigan <gilles.gigan@gmail.com>
Cc: wim@iguana.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add Nano 7240 driver
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:29:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023192948.1fe5dd8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071024121159.03d209ec.gilles.gigan@gmail.com>

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:11:59 +1000 Gilles Gigan <gilles.gigan@gmail.com> wrote:

> +	case WDIOC_SETOPTIONS:{
> +			int retval = -EINVAL;
> +
> +			if (arg & WDIOS_DISABLECARD) {
> +				wdt_disable();
> +				retval = 0;
> +			}
> +
> +			if (arg & WDIOS_ENABLECARD) {
> +				wdt_enable();
> +				retval = 0;
> +			}
> +
> +			return retval;

hrm.  So if userspace does ioctl(..., WDIOS_DISABLECARD|WDIOS_ENABLECARD,
that happens to be equivalent to WDIOS_ENABLECARD?

Do all watchdog drivers do it exactly the same way, or are we offering
inconsistent interfaces between different drivers?

An exceedingly minor point, but fun nonetheless.

(And hey, I had to say _something_)

(apart from directing your attention to scripts/checkpatch.pl)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24  2:11 [PATCH] watchdog: add Nano 7240 driver Gilles Gigan
2007-10-24  2:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-24 15:22   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2007-10-24 16:27     ` Alan Cox
2007-10-31  6:31   ` Gilles Gigan
2007-10-24 15:16 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-06 15:39 Gilles Gigan
2007-10-07  7:08 ` Andrey Panin
2007-10-07 12:49   ` Gilles Gigan
2007-10-15 19:15     ` Andrew Morton

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