On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:57:37PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi Kumar, > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:55:24PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > > Can we put the WDT for 8xx in drivers/char/watchdog/? > > The userspace interface is already there at > drivers/char/watchdog/mpc8xx_wdt.c. I don't any reason for having two > files, will try to merge them into drivers/.
Actually, drivers/char/watchdog/mpc8xx_wdt.c is a module, while some of the initialization code must reside in the kernel image. Thats the reason for the split - not sure if merging the two files is worth?
