Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:04:17 +0200 | From | Wim Van Sebroeck <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Watchdog device class |
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Hi Corey,
> Some watchdog devices have the ability to say "I'm about to reboot you, > do you want to do something about it?". The IPMI watchdog calls this a > pretimeout, but I have seen this concept on at least two other watchdog > devices. This can be delivered via an NMI or SMI and can be used to > inform the OS ahead of time that it's going to reboot the system. This > is useful because you can panic, do a coredump, or perform other useful > operations instead of just rebooting. > > Do you think this interface belongs in the structure?
It definitely does and that's why I stored your patch from 1-Nov-2005 and added it to my experimental tree just now.
Greetings, Wim.
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