Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 18:50:39 EST


On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > Here's a patch for unifying the watchdog device node name
> > to /dev/watchdog as expected by most user-space applications.
> >
> > Please CC: me on replies as I am not subscribed to LKML.
>
> Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't
> have any relation with the name of the device node.

It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev
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