Dear Wolfram, In message <20111206215056.GD14154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > bootcount itself is not a device. It is a feature of certain devices. And that > needs to be implemented; possibly generic enough that it can work for register > based, i2c based, and so forth, accesses. If "boot counter" is not a good name for such a device, then what name would you suggest? Or do you think a counter (which can be implemented in a number of different ways, depending on hardware specifics) is not a device? What would be such a device, then? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx "How is this place run - is it an anarchy?" "No, I wouldn't say so; it is not that well organised..." -- 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
