Hi Chris, >> 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. No, goal was to first have an API that reduces the existing functionality that we copy over in each driver. But it's indeed a feauture where we should look at in the future. Question will be: how will we implement it. Kind regards, Wim. -- 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
