linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers, char: add U-Boot bootcount driver

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Message-Id: <20111206215609.5D1FF1A32820@gemini.denx.de>
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

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