Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755825Ab1BWUlL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:41:11 -0500 Received: from mailrelay009.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.6.176]:65445 "EHLO mailrelay009.isp.belgacom.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752131Ab1BWUlK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:41:10 -0500 X-Belgacom-Dynamic: yes X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAOb/ZE1R8sEZ/2dsb2JhbACmIHS8Fw2FUQQ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:41:08 +0100 From: Wim Van Sebroeck To: LKML , Linux Watchdog Mailing List Cc: Alan Cox Subject: [RFC] [PATCH 0/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Message-ID: <20110223204108.GA6327@infomag.iguana.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 28 Hi All, To reduce copying the same code over and over in each watchdog device driver, Alan Cox and myself constructed a new framework/API that consolidates the common watchdog timer driver functions. This framework/API consists of the following patches: part 1: Introduction of the WatchDog Timer Driver Core part 2: Add the basic ioctl functionality part 3: Add the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl part 4: Add the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl part 5: Add the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl part 6: Add orphan control part 7: Add the Magic Close feature part 8: Add the nowayout feature part 9: Add support for a miscdev parent device part 10: Add support for extra ioctl calls Note: I still need to add the minimum and maximum timeout parameters. (That will become part 11). Please provide feedback, Kind regards, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/