Re: Query: Best way to know if a watchdog is active (kicked)

[Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>]

On 18/08/2015:07:23:38 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Sounds good. We should have a 'name' attribute as well. We'll also need
> 'timeout', 'keepalive' to ping the watchdog, 'timeleft', and 'bootstatus'.
> Not sure what else.
> 
> The attributes should be implemented as class attributes, to ensure
> that they are created and removed automatically. That may require
> the watchdog class to be static instead of a pointer.

Should n't attributes be implemented as device attribute as they are properties
of each device. Under the class watchdog_class, we can have multiple device on a
system, and these attributes would be different for different devices. So, what
I am thinking is to create device in __watchdog_register_device using
device_create_with_groups instead of device_create. Here we can link a
attribute_group with all attributes you suggested.

~Pratyush