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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:48:23PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> Francois Romieu wrote:
> > > I've gone through the drivers and tried to write down "established
> > > practice".  I guess I'm too wordy as usual, but it should be a
> > > starting point.  Please take a look at the attached file and if you or
...
> Implementations in the current drivers in the kernel tree:
> 
> Here I have tried to summarize what the different drivers support and
> where they do strange things compared to the other drivers.

Christer,
	Looks good.  Have you checked out the 2.4.18pre trees?  The
WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT flag is set for GETSTATUS in all of the drivers that
support WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT/WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT.  There are 8 or 9 of them,
but this did not seem to reflected in your document.

Joel

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