Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Making drivers/char/watchdog | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:56:45 +1000 |
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:32:28 -0400 (EDT), Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com> wrote: >This e-mail probably doesn't affect 99% of you out there, but it's coming >into your inboxes anyways :-). How would people feel about moving the >22 watchdog drivers into their own subdirectory off of drivers/char/ in >both 2.4 and 2.5? (Well, 2.5 only has 18 at the moment, but I'm planning >on adding the 4 2.4-only drivers to 2.5 once updating 2.4 is done) > >I've received a bunch of inquiries about breaking them into their own >subdirectory. At the moment there are 20 watchdog drivers in >drivers/char/ and 2 in drivers/sbus/char/ in 2.4, and 16 in drivers/char/ >and 2 in drivers/sbus/char/ in 2.5. I think putting them all into one >place will make them easier to maintain, more standardized, and less >buggy.
Moving the watchdogs to their own directory makes sense, but watch out for config sensitivity. ATM drivers/sbus is only selected if the arch is not m68k (anybody know why?) and the whole drivers/sbus/char directory is conditioned on CONFIG_SBUSCHAR.
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