Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757349Ab1FPNKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:10:11 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:59775 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138Ab1FPNKH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:10:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jHPrl4tZ3QRnKLu01bPHXXH7OMsxSArrIJgUUXgcuGSzuUume1VeNcLsFCFtdgA4hg qeCElPnblah5fFPc3Ug9mO7pdU1TIrAIYaB4VP3eIRUcx94od+NZpykd/8C8ruWCN33a Zf+5BJ/kNu1pABzm3tGniZS+HOMNpi9JV1iN0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110223204108.GA6327@infomag.iguana.be> References: <20110223204108.GA6327@infomag.iguana.be> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:10:06 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver From: Andrea Galbusera To: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: LKML , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , Alan Cox Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 35 Hi Wim, On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > 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 While looking for efforts to provide a generic driver for gpio driven watchdog devices, like some simple hardware supervisors, I came into this patchset RFC, which turned out to be very interesting to me. Maybe I'm looking into the wrong places, but I could not find any upstream commit after this RFC. Since I don't see any real critic from commenters to the approach you are suggesting, I'd like to know if there still is some work-in-progress on this. TIA Kind regards, Andrea -- 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/