Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758547Ab1FVSbF (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:31:05 -0400 Received: from exprod7og107.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.167]:42747 "EHLO exprod7og107.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758164Ab1FVSbD (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:31:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4E023455.8010606@genband.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:37 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wim Van Sebroeck CC: LKML , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver References: <20110618171946.GB3441@infomag.iguana.be> In-Reply-To: <20110618171946.GB3441@infomag.iguana.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2011 18:28:38.0877 (UTC) FILETIME=[3498E0D0:01CC310A] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-18216.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--6.762000-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1179 Lines: 34 On 06/18/2011 11:19 AM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Part 1 > > The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework > that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's. > It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the > operations that go with it. > > This is the introduction of this framework. This part > supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with > other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's > open, release and write functionality as defined in > the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will > follow in the next set of patches. Have you thought about callback support for systems that support a two-stage watchdog? That way we could do something useful (preserve system memory using kdump, for instance) rather than just getting whacked by the hardware. Chris -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@genband.com www.genband.com -- 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/