On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Scott Murray wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > 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. :)
Yes, and on embedded SoC devices we have watchdog facilities sitting
on an internal chip bus. It would be nice to find access points in
a uniform place on any Linux system. i.e. PCI watchdog on my x86 desktop
is in the same place as the on-chip watchdog on my PPC44x system.
IMHO, anything else would be a logical step backwards from accessing
/dev/watchdog across platforms.
Regards,
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