Re: [PATCH 8/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

[Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>]

Hi Arnd,

> On Saturday 18 June 2011 19:26:37 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> > 
> > watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Part 8
> >    
> > Add support for a parent device so that it can
> > be set as the parent of the misc_device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> How about folding this patch into the first one? It hardly adds any code 
> as much as it replaces some lines with others.

prefer to not do that for following reasons:
1) I deliberately splitted the framework in a series of patches, so that people
understand better what the differen developmentt steps have been historically
and/or logically. By splitting it, I hope that people will understand better
why the API is what it is.
2) most watchdog drivers don't do this yet. So this teaches existing device
driver writers also that this is a possible feature.

Kind regards,
Wim.