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Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:59:00 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Watchdog: introdouce "pretimeout" into framework
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 08:55:25AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Fu Wei wrote:
> >>>The new API function also needs to be documented in
> >>>Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt.
> >good point, thanks will do
> 
> Yes, please, since my driver does not use or need any pre-timeout support,
> so I don't understand why this patch exists.  What is pre-timeout anyway?

Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt; look for "Pretimeouts:".

Guenter