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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFE: export watchdog features and version by /sys
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:13:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606171304.GA313@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606100131.2xgrs5cmtnj4hjyb@ws.net.home>

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 12:01:31PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  I'd like to improve wdctl(8) to read watchdog info from /sys, but I
>  found that sysfs does not provide all information like ioctl API.
> 
>  Unfortunately, there is no way how from /sys get info about supported
>  watchdog features and firmware version. This info is accessible only 
>  by WDIOC_GETSUPPORT ioclt (struct watchdog_info->options and
>  watchdog_info->firmware_version).
> 
>  It would be nice to have "options" and "firmware_version" also in in
>  sysfs. Please :-)
> 

Makes sense. Care to submit patches implementing it ?

We would have to resolve the conflict against the existing
firmware_version attribute provided by ziirave_wdt.

Thanks,
Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-06 10:01 RFE: export watchdog features and version by /sys Karel Zak
2019-06-06 17:13 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2019-06-17 13:57   ` Karel Zak

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