From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:58283 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbbL2QCP (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:02:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:02:08 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Additional patches in my watchdog-next branch Message-ID: <20151229160208.GA30405@roeck-us.net> References: <20151228152335.GA18627@roeck-us.net> <20151228152710.GA31482@spo001.leaseweb.nl> <20151228215709.GA30595@roeck-us.net> <20151228225427.GA2018@spo001.leaseweb.nl> <20151229000848.GC2346@roeck-us.net> <20151229072108.GB6292@spo001.leaseweb.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151229072108.GB6292@spo001.leaseweb.nl> Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Hi Wim, On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:21:08AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:54:27PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 04:27:11PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > > > Hi Guneter, > > > > > > > > > > > I have a number of patches pending in my watchdog-next branch which are not > > > > > > in your watchdog-next repository. Below is a summary, rebased onto your > > > > > > repository. This does not include the patches I had submitted. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please consider those patches for v4.5. > > > > > > > > > > I'm still working on those. Will be for this evening. I left those because they are all new drivers. I wanted to have all fixes and other patches first. > > > > > So not finished yet :-) I will also add your dev fixes (V2 patchset containing 5 patches). > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > No problem. I think we now have all patches that should go in for v4.5 . > > > > > > There is off course still other stuff that I need to look at: > > > SBSA, pretimeout, bcm63xx, stmp3xxx GETBOOTSTATUS (although I have the impression that this patch is a dead end because you cannot really tell what the reboot reason is with the patch), soft timer's moving into the core, mei watchdog code, ... > > Hi Wim, > > > > I'll have to look into those again as well. Most will now conflict > > with the new watchdog core code. > > > > Any thoughts on the other patch series I sent out, to create the watchdog > > device in watchdog_dev.c, and to handle reference counting in the watchdog > > core ? That would be a prerequisite for me to rebase (and rework) the soft > > timer handling core. I had hoped that the changes to handle reference > > counting in the core could make it into 4.5. > > Need to review this 6-part patchset still. But probably still possible for 4.5 . That would be great. > The soft-timer patches are also 4.6 at the earliest. > Absolutely agree. I'll have to rebase and retest the code. Thanks, Guenter > Kind regards, > Wim. >