From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932591AbWF1AiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932408AbWF1AiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:38:12 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net ([63.240.77.84]:17661 "EHLO sccrmhc14.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932591AbWF1AiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:38:12 -0400 Message-ID: <44A1CF94.8030404@acm.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:38:44 -0500 From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060517) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, wim@iguana.be Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl References: <20060627182225.GD10805@localdomain> <20060627172908.2116a1fa.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060627172908.2116a1fa.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.. >