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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WatchDog Driver Updates
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:52:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020407115212.B30048@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020407083207.A28922@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204070624470.3791-100000@pita.lan>

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:35:55AM -0400, Rob Radez wrote:
> Hmm...I'm not seeing any standards here.  Some drivers would just send
> whether the watchdog device was open, some would only send 0, sc1200
> would send whether the device was enabled or disabled, one did 'int one=1'
> and then a few lines later copy_to_user'd 'one', and it looks like all of
> three of twenty would actually return proper WDIOF flags.

Maybe Alan would like to comment and clear up this issue - I believe the
interface was Alan's design.  Certainly Alan wrote most of the early
watchdog drivers.

Thanks.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-07 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-07  2:49 WatchDog Driver Updates Rob Radez
2002-04-07  7:32 ` Russell King
2002-04-07 10:35   ` Rob Radez
2002-04-07 10:52     ` Russell King [this message]
2002-04-07 10:58       ` Rob Radez
2002-04-07 13:32         ` Alan Cox
2002-04-07 13:34     ` Alan Cox
2002-04-07 13:48       ` Rob Radez
2002-04-07  9:15 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-04-07 10:16   ` Rob Radez

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