Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:29:08 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl |
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minyard@acm.org wrote: > > Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which > occurs some time before the real timeout. The pretimeout can > be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic > the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead > of a blind reboot). > > The IPMI watchdog has had this built in, but this creates a standard > mechanism for all watchdogs and switches the IPMI driver over to it.
This patch seems to be kinda-sorta already half-present in Wim's development tree. Could you take a look at what's in 2.6.17-mm3, see if any additional work is needed and if so, send a patch against that?
Then we can feed it all in when (or after) Wim does his 2.6.18 merge, which is hopefully soon.. - 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/
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