From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:38497 "EHLO mail-pa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465AbaECCwA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2014 22:52:00 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id ey11so1012799pad.4 for ; Fri, 02 May 2014 19:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <536459CC.4090302@acm.org> Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 21:51:56 -0500 From: Corey Minyard Reply-To: minyard@acm.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Zickus CC: Guenter Roeck , openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ipmi watchdog questions References: <20140501135832.GE61249@redhat.com> <5362E8FA.9050700@acm.org> <5362F0B0.4030405@roeck-us.net> <5363213D.7060701@acm.org> <53639AFF.40206@roeck-us.net> <20140502164424.GH198341@redhat.com> <5363D34B.9000006@roeck-us.net> <20140502174650.GI198341@redhat.com> <5364138C.1050208@acm.org> <20140503021002.GA20778@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20140503021002.GA20778@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org On 05/02/2014 09:10 PM, Don Zickus wrote: > framework. > Implementing read/poll should be easy in the framework. > > Don, are you interested in working on this? i won't be able to get to > it for a bit. > I don't mind doing the work, as long as we agree on an implementation. :-) > > Just throwing an idea out there based on Guenter's reply, should I just > create a new file ipmi_wdt in the drivers/watchdog area that is ported to > the new watchdog framework? Yes, that's what I would do. I definitely belongs in the watchdog directory. > > The idea is if a user pops up that wants the userspace solution that can > fallback to the old ipmi_watchdog currently implemented. Otherwise the > new port would be the recommended way to go? Seeing that the current > driver is updated fairly infrequent, keeping both drivers in sync wouldn't > be to hard. > > Just a random idea. Yes, that's probably a good plan. -corey