Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 2015 08:05:54 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Watchdog: introduce "pretimeout" into framework |
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:38:32PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote: > Hi Guenter. > > Sorry for my poor English . > let me explain this : > > On 22 May 2015 at 21:23, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > On 05/22/2015 03:46 AM, Fu Wei wrote: > >> > >> Hi Timo, > >> > > [ ... ] > > > >> So I am still trying to improve pretimeout support :-) > > > > > > Is there anything still missing from it ? > > > >> If I can make pretimeout merged, may be you can try pretimeout to > >> implement early_timeout_sec function? > > > > > > Not sure how one would or even could do that. > > > > Do you mean "implement early_pretimeout_sec", by any chance ? > > I mean: using pretimeout to implement the function you want, instead > of early_pretimeout_sec > How would this work if the watchdog hardware doesn't support pretimeout ?
Pretimeout and early timeout are two logically different functions, with different goals, so I don't entirely (if at all) understand why it would make sense to tie them together.
Can you elaborate why you think this would be a good idea ?
Thanks, Guenter
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