From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758572Ab1FXNuK (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:50:10 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:62353 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758391Ab1FXNuF (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:50:05 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Wim Van Sebroeck Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.0.0-rc1nosema+; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: LKML , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , Alan Cox References: <20110618172637.GI3441@infomag.iguana.be> <201106182109.14520.arnd@arndb.de> <20110622200009.GC26745@infomag.iguana.be> In-Reply-To: <20110622200009.GC26745@infomag.iguana.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106241549.32601.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:SnBrpgStVJ0PnBap2ql9+gRwjubJju8ZdoaCOwut8iz j1BlkNPAG9DlAEJfjwFK9xtMhjqn5znFTk7k8Jh1NYpbL9j/P3 wJy5WFQVZLEgoYIE6V9FLzWnhtlT8vHJbS+R/lMHSt/pDg16J3 bzsKt6NHjfmtY0Iw+fA/8PZ1CcmnRe/+HgyMTZiAO3MZQijupm eI6dSgj4jsNlE4DXu33gg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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