[PATCH] WDT Driver for Book-E [2/2] Device driver part.
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Mar 7 08:11:36 EST 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 04:15 +0900, Takeharu KATO wrote:
> Hi, Josh:
>
> Takeharu KATO wrote:
> >>
> > To tell the truth, this matter has been examined, but I forgot this.
> > Thank you for making it recall(^^
> >
> I performed minor fixes which you pointed out.
> But I leaves WDT_WP[0123] on purpose.
> The interpretation of this value is different between PPC4xx and e500.
> To unite them, I leaves this.
Ok, that makes sense.
>
> >>
> >> In include/linux/device.h there are dev_printk and dev_dbg macros that
> >> do pretty much the same thing. Could you use those instead?
> >>
> > I did not know such thing.
> > I'll try to use them.
> >
> On second thought, I found that it is not so good idea.
> If I change this according to what you said, it is not
> easy to find which driver outputs messages when we can
> use multiple WDT in a system.
>
> Macros in include/linux/device.h will use name member in miscdevice
> struct as driver's name, and this is commonly named as "watchdog".
>
Ok, that's fine too. No complaints here.
> FYI, I show the difference with the patch submitted last time.
>
>
> Regards,I'll test this driver today, just in case, before I post the
> revised edition of this driver.
Thanks! Looks good.
josh
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