Hi Arnd, > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 21:09:45 Jamie Iles wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Peter Fordham wrote: > > > > I've added Wim (watchdog driver maintainer), but I would think that if > > > > this change is worth doing then it should be done for all drivers. > > > > > > Agreed, but today this may be more work than I'm strictly interested in > > > doing. If we do decide it's the right thing then I'll look into converting the > > > other drivers later. > > > > So I'm not fully aware of what particular problem this is solving, but > > if it is needed for this driver then it should really be done for all of > > them. That's probably one for Wim to answer though. Wim posted a > > series for a generic watchdog framework a while back[1] but this still > > made use of a misc device. > > Let's first wait until the generic watchdog framework gets merged and > the drivers are converted. After that is in, we can discuss further changes. > > I highly doubt that making an incompatible API change benefits anyone here, > but it certainly shouldn't be done for a single driver that is separate from > the framework. Agree for the full 100%. Thanks, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
