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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
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Hi,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
> I incorporated the changes/feedback that I received from the second post.
>
> 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 the Magic Close feature
> part  7: Add the nowayout feature
> part  8: Add support for a miscdev parent device
> part  9: Add support for extra ioctl calls
> part 10: Add the minimum and maximum timeout parameters.
> part 11: Remove llseek
>
> The code will also be added to linux-2.6-watchdog-next.
>
> Changes since V2:
> * all "flags" are unsigned
> * timeout values are also unsigned
> * removed unnececessary debugging
> * clean-up comments
> * the core will be in drivers/watchdog/ and not in drivers/watchdog/core/
>
I had the occasion to have a look to the code in -next this week, so
my comment will be based on this.

One thing which looked too constrained to me, is that the framework
only supports a for a single watchdog. While this is fine for most
board, I have an x86 based device which has 2 watchdog. This might be
silly, but that's what the hardware provide. The current wartchdog
framework would fail to adapt to this board. Moreover, one might think
to provide interface to fail-to-wire NICs device on top of the
watchdog framework. So at the end, it might be needed to be able to
register an infinite amount of watchdog. Though, I am not sure how it
would presented to userland, maybe something ala /dev/watchdog/[0-N].

Regards,
- Arnaud

> Kind regards,
> Wim.
>
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