From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756141Ab1CVQu5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:50:57 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:58566 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615Ab1CVQuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:50:55 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Oren Weil Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] char/mei: Intel MEI Driver Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:50:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.37; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@linux.intel.com, david@woodhou.se References: <1300791092-14319-1-git-send-email-oren.jer.weil@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1300791092-14319-1-git-send-email-oren.jer.weil@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103221750.52118.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:HpVV0+/MwXzV+keWMNWp0RIbq2gzfPA4XzJKzTWeD1l y92yFa4BUiC5paMuuVJzGDPRXyIXEFROeEQy3aOXXgzYHjV3ma 5leb6qjQf6sDBuOz4ZMcpw3Cfhsf6Cs1uHph9xORza4wwHvSjq BJpchHcW0r4251XdlC+0n7kZZX+rdRhjey84XxLvHHOAcTZvRI wZwRzd3tTHv9YCpG7yyfg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 22 March 2011, Oren Weil wrote: > Module Parameters > ================= > watchdog_timeout - in order to change the watchdog timeout setting > the user can use this module parameter. > this value set the Intel AMT watchdog timeout interval in seconds, > the default value is 120sec. > to disable the watchdog set the value 0. > > The AMT watchdog is used for monitoring the OS health. > > Note: We are aware that this code is not in its best shape > we are working to make it better and we will appreciate any feedbacks > and reviews that you can give to improve it. I suppose one of the important things to do here is integrate the watchdog part into the common watchdog infrastructure in drivers/watchdog. Maybe this driver can export a simple interface to another module that implements the watchdog device? Arnd