linux-kernel - Re: Handling multiple watchdogs

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Message-ID: <20090722171920.505ffc4b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:20 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Simon Braunschmidt <sb@...ix.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wim@...ana.be
Subject: Re: Handling multiple watchdogs

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:09:11 +0200
Simon Braunschmidt <sb@...ix.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have two watchdogs on my board that I both want to handle. What would 
> be the proper approach in this case?

Fixing the watchdog core to create a class of watchdog drivers and
treating the existing /dev/watchdog as a back compatibility hack. It's
been talked about for a very long time but not done, although I believe
Wim had some test code at one point ?

Alan
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