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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 00:47, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> Ok, I had to go and read the driver-model documentation a couple of more
> times, but after I actually started writing some code it finally started
> to make sense.  

The watchdog_ops is probably a good thing anyway. If you also use that
same structure with the base watchdog module having the ioctl parser all
the ioctl handling funnies and quirks in the drivers go away except
for driver private stuff.

Two for the price of one

Alan

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