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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:56:09 +0100 From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de> To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de> cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@...x.de>, Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@...mvista.com>, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers, char: add U-Boot bootcount driver Dear Wolfram, In message <20111206215056.GD14154@...gutronix.de> you wrote: > > bootcount itself is not a device. It is a feature of certain devices. And that > needs to be implemented; possibly generic enough that it can work for register > based, i2c based, and so forth, accesses. If "boot counter" is not a good name for such a device, then what name would you suggest? Or do you think a counter (which can be implemented in a number of different ways, depending on hardware specifics) is not a device? What would be such a device, then? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@...x.de "How is this place run - is it an anarchy?" "No, I wouldn't say so; it is not that well organised..." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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