Hi Wim, On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To reduce copying the same code over and over in each watchdog device driver, Alan Cox and myself constructed a new framework/API that consolidates the common watchdog timer driver functions. > > This framework/API consists of the following patches: > part 1: Introduction of the WatchDog Timer Driver Core > part 2: Add the basic ioctl functionality > part 3: Add the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl > part 4: Add the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl > part 5: Add the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl > part 6: Add orphan control > part 7: Add the Magic Close feature > part 8: Add the nowayout feature > part 9: Add support for a miscdev parent device > part 10: Add support for extra ioctl calls While looking for efforts to provide a generic driver for gpio driven watchdog devices, like some simple hardware supervisors, I came into this patchset RFC, which turned out to be very interesting to me. Maybe I'm looking into the wrong places, but I could not find any upstream commit after this RFC. Since I don't see any real critic from commenters to the approach you are suggesting, I'd like to know if there still is some work-in-progress on this. TIA Kind regards, Andrea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
