From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail3.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.45]:13968 "EHLO mail3.vodafone.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759976Ab2COMtW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:49:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4F61E312.90209@draigBrady.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:39:46 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans de Goede CC: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Wim Van Sebroeck , LM Sensors , Thilo Cestonaro Subject: Re: Watchdog timer core enhancements References: <1331812757-3491-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1331812757-3491-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/15/2012 11:59 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Short selfintro for the watchdog people: I'm a FOSS developer / enthusi= ast > for close to 15 years now. I've written Linux kernel drivers for a ton > of webcams and various hwmon IC's. >=20 > Three of the hwmon drivers I maintain are IC's which also include a wat= chdog > part in their hwmon solution. >=20 > This is a resend of a series of watchdog_dev patches which I initially = send > on Sep 12 2011: > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-September/033707.= html > And which unfortunately has seen 0 reviews / feedback since then. >=20 > This resend is re-based on top of v3.3-rc7 >=20 > Currently the hwmon drivers I maintain are implementing the watchdog AP= I > all by themselves, I would very much like to switch them over to > watchdog_dev to remove a lot of code duplication, but there currently > are 2 things stopping me from moving them over: >=20 > 1) The driver core only works for 1 watchdog, but both my fschmd and my= sch5636 > test systems also have an iTCO watchdog and that tends to load first. T= hus when > writing the fschmd watchdog code I made it support loading either on th= e > default watchdog minor, or on one of the additional reserved watchdog m= inors > (212-215). The first patch in this series adds support for this to the > watchdog timer driver core (which was quite straightforward to add). I noticed Alan Cox recently proposed multiple watchdog device support https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/28/473 cheers, P=E1draig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:39:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Watchdog timer core enhancements Message-Id: <4F61E312.90209@draigBrady.com> List-Id: References: <1331812757-3491-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1331812757-3491-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Hans de Goede Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Wim Van Sebroeck , LM Sensors , Thilo Cestonaro On 03/15/2012 11:59 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Short selfintro for the watchdog people: I'm a FOSS developer / enthusiast > for close to 15 years now. I've written Linux kernel drivers for a ton > of webcams and various hwmon IC's. >=20 > Three of the hwmon drivers I maintain are IC's which also include a watch= dog > part in their hwmon solution. >=20 > This is a resend of a series of watchdog_dev patches which I initially se= nd > on Sep 12 2011: > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-September/033707.ht= ml > And which unfortunately has seen 0 reviews / feedback since then. >=20 > This resend is re-based on top of v3.3-rc7 >=20 > Currently the hwmon drivers I maintain are implementing the watchdog API > all by themselves, I would very much like to switch them over to > watchdog_dev to remove a lot of code duplication, but there currently > are 2 things stopping me from moving them over: >=20 > 1) The driver core only works for 1 watchdog, but both my fschmd and my s= ch5636 > test systems also have an iTCO watchdog and that tends to load first. Thu= s when > writing the fschmd watchdog code I made it support loading either on the > default watchdog minor, or on one of the additional reserved watchdog min= ors > (212-215). The first patch in this series adds support for this to the > watchdog timer driver core (which was quite straightforward to add). I noticed Alan Cox recently proposed multiple watchdog device support https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/28/473 cheers, P=E1draig. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors