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From: Scott Murray <scottm@somanetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
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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. :)

Scott


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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
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