Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri Sep 08 2006 - 08:19:51 EST


> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Is W83697HG a good name?
> >
>
>
> could you add a suffix, say _watchdog ?
>
> the name youve got is confusingly close to the convention used in
> drivers/hwmon
>
> ls hwmon/w*.c
> hwmon/w83627ehf.c hwmon/w83627hf.c hwmon/w83781d.c hwmon/w83791d.c
> hwmon/w83792d.c hwmon/w83l785ts.c

I second Jim's suggestion. Given the name of the other Winbond watchdog
drivers:

char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
char/watchdog/w83977f_wdt.c
char/watchdog/w83877f_wdt.c

I'd suggest w83697hf_wdt.c. The W83697HG if the lead-free version of
the older W83697HF and they are otherwise the same chip. BTW I see that
there's already a driver for the W83627HF watchdog. Given the
similarities between the W83627HF and the W83697HF, it might make sense
to add support for the latter directly in the w83627hf_wdt driver,
rather than writing a brand new one.

--
Jean Delvare
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