On Thu 24 May 2007 01:23, Paul Mundt pondered: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:21:47AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > is this completely bad mojo ? is there some other mechanism that > > provides what i want and i just dont know about it ? or do i just > > make people change the driver to fit their application, thus throwing > > out the idea of keeping all board-specific details in just the boards > > file ... > > It sounds like your constraining your driver based on terminology. > Watchdogs on most embedded platforms support either a 'reset' mode or > otherwise act as periodic timers, trying to push both of these > functionalities in to a watchdog driver is rather pointless. > CONFIG_WATCHDOG implies 'reset' mode by definition.
I understand what you mean - typically - most people think of watchdog == reset. But, calling it a periodic timer, and servicing it with the watchdog user space demon is even more confusing - isn't it? -Robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
