Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:37 -0600 | | From | Chris Friesen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver |
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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
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