From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, wim@iguana.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:38:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A1CF94.8030404@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060627172908.2116a1fa.akpm@osdl.org>
Oops, my bad, yes, it's already there. Sorry about that.
-Corey
Andrew Morton wrote:
> minyard@acm.org wrote:
>
>> Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which
>> occurs some time before the real timeout. The pretimeout can
>> be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic
>> the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead
>> of a blind reboot).
>>
>> The IPMI watchdog has had this built in, but this creates a standard
>> mechanism for all watchdogs and switches the IPMI driver over to it.
>>
>
> This patch seems to be kinda-sorta already half-present in Wim's
> development tree. Could you take a look at what's in 2.6.17-mm3, see if
> any additional work is needed and if so, send a patch against that?
>
> Then we can feed it all in when (or after) Wim does his 2.6.18 merge, which
> is hopefully soon..
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-28 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-27 18:22 [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl minyard
2006-06-27 18:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 1:05 ` Corey Minyard
2006-06-28 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 0:38 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
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