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Subject: Re: [DRIVER][RFC] SC1200 Watchdog driver
To: zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz (Zwane Mwaikambo)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:16:55 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
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> Thanks Alan and Jeff for the input, i'll cleanup this stuff. Out of 
> interest, do we normally take in patches for specialised embedded boxes? I 

A lot of the watchdogs are for specific embedded boards. It is improving as
vendors (notably Intel) figure that watchdogs on the chipset are not much
silicon and very useful

> to integrate. I presume they'd get accepted if the code was broken up into 
> seperate modules instead of being overly specialised. For example, the 
> CRIS stuff in the Etrax tree (developer.axis.com).

Etrax is an entire architecture - its a bit differently weird 8)
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