Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:17 -0700 | From | Matt Porter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs |
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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.
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