[PATCH 1/3] poller: add poller support

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 09/15/2010 09:47 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	a bit more info in the commit will be nice

I should have put the information from the introduction mail to the
first patch. Here it comes:

This patch adds a generic polling infrastructure to barebox. It defines
a interface to add and remove functions that should be called during a
poll. These functions can be used to reset hardware watchdogs or poll
devices to simulate interrupts.

> 	but we could name it differently as it could be see as interrupt

Do you have a better name? I'm usually bad with good names, but I don't
want to have interrupts or something like this, because it's polling no
real interrupts. E.g. if you don't have the polling call in your
for-loop your code won't be interrupted. (..and it's usually not your
code that's missing the poller call).

cheers, Marc

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