Re: [PATCH 1/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 20:16 +0000, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework
> that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's.
> It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the
> operations that go with it.
> 
> This is the introduction of this framework. This part
> supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with
> other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's
> open, release and write functionality as defined in
> the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will
> follow in the next set of patches.

Perhaps add some logging helpers to the .h?

#define wdd_emerg(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_emerg("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_crit(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_crit("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_alert(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_alert("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_err(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_err("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_notice(wd, fmt, ...)				\
	pr_notice("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_warn(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_warn("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_info(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_info("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define wdd_dbg(wd, fmt, ...)					\
	pr_debug("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)

> +	err = misc_register(&watchdog_miscdev);
> +	if (err != 0) {
> +		pr_err("%s: cannot register miscdev on minor=%d (err=%d).\n",
> +			watchdog->info->identity, WATCHDOG_MINOR, err);

		wdd_err(watchdog, "cannot register watchdog on minor %d, err: %d\n",
			WATCHDOG_MINOR, err);

etc...