On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 15:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Doesn't seem to be serious enough to be worth it at this late stage in the > 2.6.13 game. Can you re-send after I do a release? Resending as requested: Here's a patch for unifying the watchdog device node name to /dev/watchdog as expected by most user-space applications. Please CC: me on replies as I am not subscribed to LKML. Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <[email protected]> diff -Nurp linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c 2005-08-29 12:28:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static struct file_operations ixp2000_wd static struct miscdevice ixp2000_wdt_miscdev = { .minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR, - .name = "IXP2000 Watchdog", + .name = "watchdog", .fops = &ixp2000_wdt_fops, }; diff -Nurp linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c 2005-08-29 12:28:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static struct file_operations ixp4xx_wdt static struct miscdevice ixp4xx_wdt_miscdev = { .minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR, - .name = "IXP4xx Watchdog", + .name = "watchdog", .fops = &ixp4xx_wdt_fops, }; diff -Nurp linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-watchdog/drivers/char/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c 2005-08-29 12:28:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static struct file_operations scx200_wdt static struct miscdevice scx200_wdt_miscdev = { .minor = WATCHDOG_MINOR, - .name = NAME, + .name = "watchdog", .fops = &scx200_wdt_fops, }; -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[email protected]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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