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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
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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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