Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs

[Scott Murray]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Patrick Mochel wrote:
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> Create a watchdog timer class. That will contain all watchdog timers, no 
> matter what bus they are on. 
> 
> I apologize for leading you astray with suggesting you treat them as 
> system devices; I was under the assumption they were more important. :)
> They should always be in the most accurate place in the tree. Don't worry 
> about what the user sees; consistency and accuracy are more important..

I like this idea, since it means my init scripts wouldn't have to dig 
around looking for watchdog directories/files on various flavours of cPCI 
CPU cards. :)

Scott

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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
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