On 13 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 03:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:16:55PM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> > > Basically, with the help of some watchdog infrastructure code, we could make
> > > each watchdog device register as a platform_device named watchdog, so for
> > > every watchdog on the system there is a /sys/devices/legacy/watchdogN/
> > > directory created for it.
> >
> > Why legacy ? That seems an odd place to be putting these.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --
> > | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> > | SuSE Labs
>
> The watchdogN devices show up under the "legacy" directory because
> they are platform devices. From reading the driver-model documentation,
> I believe that platform devices are the correct way of categorizing
> watchdog devices.
>
> <pasting from Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt>
>
> Platform devices
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You could regard them as 'system' devices, and have them show up in
devices/sys/, which would make more sense than 'legacy'.
-pat
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