[PATCH 7/8] staging/mei: AMT Watchdog

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Thu Apr 28 13:38:30 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:51:41AM +0300, Weil, Oren jer wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:53:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> I still think this should be a regular watchdog driver using the
> >> drivers/watchdog user interface.
> >
> >I agree, Oren, if you are going to insist on doing things this way, you had
> >better describe _why_ you are ignoring the existing kernel interfaces
> >provided.
> 
> we are not going to ignore the existing interfaces, it is one of our items
> in the TODO list.

Like I stated earlier, there was no TODO list in your patch, so how
could we know this?  :)

> You can see the we move all of the Watchdog code to a single file so it
> would easy to us to take it later to other driver.
> Another Item on our TODO list is to expose Kernel function that equivalent
> to user interface so kernel clients can access FW features/clients.

Nice, but again, how could we know this?

thanks,

greg k-h



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