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On Tuesday 24 January 2012 03:03 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> Just returning the register content does not help much and looking at other
>> implementations, like Blackfin, I am guessing this IOCTL is supposed to give
>> 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.
Yes I agree.
> Regards,
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>    Wolfram
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