Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 14 Feb 2003 20:43:48 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 19:02, Rusty Lynch wrote: > If /dev/watchdog is a link to a sysfs file, then (at least in sysfs's > current state) you loose the ability to handle the documented watchdog > ioctl's. That is why I assumed that the watchdog base.c could implement > a miscdev registered for the watchdog minor (130), and then translate > the documented ioctl's into the watchdog_ops calls for the the specific > driver that is currently associated with the miscdevice.
sysfs is not capable of handling ioctl forwarding ? Oops, then I guess the mess has to live on
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