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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 23:17, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> The watchdog infrastructure would just show what ever integer the driver
> provides via the watchdog_ops.get_temperature() function pointer, so it
> would be up to the driver developer to decide if the data is really
> Fahrenheit or whatever.

We do need to be sure they all agree about it however 8)

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