Re: [PATCH 8/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jun 24 2011 - 09:50:13 EST


On Wednesday 22 June 2011 22:00:09 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> prefer to not do that for following reasons:
> 1) I deliberately splitted the framework in a series of patches, so that people
> understand better what the differen developmentt steps have been historically
> and/or logically. By splitting it, I hope that people will understand better
> why the API is what it is.
> 2) most watchdog drivers don't do this yet. So this teaches existing device
> driver writers also that this is a possible feature.
>

Ok, makes sense.

Arnd
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