From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:50075 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754642Ab2AXJd0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:33:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:33:18 +0100 From: Wolfram Sang To: "Bedia, Vaibhav" Cc: Shubhrajyoti Datta , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "Datta, Shubhrajyoti" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] watchdog : omap_wdt : Implement WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS for omap3+ Message-ID: <20120124093318.GA2609@pengutronix.de> References: <1327317188-14782-1-git-send-email-shubhrajyoti@ti.com> <1327317188-14782-2-git-send-email-shubhrajyoti@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Just returning the register content does not help much and looking at oth= er > implementations, like Blackfin, I am guessing this IOCTL is supposed to g= ive > a yes/no sort of result. It needs to return WDIOF_* flags as defined in include/linux/watchdog.h. Check also Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt for further info. Yes, not all drivers follow this style, sadly. Regards, Wolfram --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8eet4ACgkQD27XaX1/VRvemQCfdyCWZpduV2MQDzuGG5EzjvDo niAAnigt6+3lL3UGKmLUTrEvbahfjJj8 =SE2R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--