From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:53939 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753855Ab1GLSoK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:44:10 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Wim Van Sebroeck Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:43:16 +0200 Cc: LKML , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Wolfram Sang References: <20110711135056.GT29245@infomag.iguana.be> In-Reply-To: <20110711135056.GT29245@infomag.iguana.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107122043.16528.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org On Monday 11 July 2011 15:50:56 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > 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 Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann , the whole series. As far as I can tell, all the issues I've raised the last time have been resolved, in a lot of cases by convincing me that your solution was ok to start with ;-) Arnd