Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:04:02 -0600 (CST) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs |
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On 13 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 03:55, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:16:55PM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote: > > > Basically, with the help of some watchdog infrastructure code, we could make > > > each watchdog device register as a platform_device named watchdog, so for > > > every watchdog on the system there is a /sys/devices/legacy/watchdogN/ > > > directory created for it. > > > > Why legacy ? That seems an odd place to be putting these. > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > > | SuSE Labs > > The watchdogN devices show up under the "legacy" directory because > they are platform devices. From reading the driver-model documentation, > I believe that platform devices are the correct way of categorizing > watchdog devices. > > <pasting from Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt> > > Platform devices > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You could regard them as 'system' devices, and have them show up in devices/sys/, which would make more sense than 'legacy'.
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