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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E023455.8010606@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110618171946.GB3441@infomag.iguana.be>

On 06/18/2011 11:19 AM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Part 1
>
> The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework
> that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's.
> It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the
> operations that go with it.
>
> This is the introduction of this framework. This part
> supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with
> other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's
> open, release and write functionality as defined in
> the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will
> follow in the next set of patches.


Have you thought about callback support for systems that support a 
two-stage watchdog?  That way we could do something useful (preserve 
system memory using kdump, for instance) rather than just getting 
whacked by the hardware.

Chris

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Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-18 17:19 [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 18:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-20  3:44   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-22 20:15     ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-22 12:24   ` Mark Brown
2011-06-22 19:50   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 13:59     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 19:27       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-06 19:17   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-06 19:26     ` Alan Cox
2011-07-06 19:30     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-06-22 18:28 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2011-06-22 20:25   ` Wim Van Sebroeck

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