From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106241549.32601.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622200009.GC26745@infomag.iguana.be>
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 22:00:09 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, makes sense.
Arnd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 17:26 [PATCH 8/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 19:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 20:00 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 13:49 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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