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.
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