Hi Wim, unless there is another issue with this patch, could You give an ack now? thanks, Oskar On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 15:37:24 +0000, Oskar Schirmer wrote: > This watchdog device provides pretimeout facilities: > Set some timeout value and get informed about imminent > watchdog activity thru interrupt. > > Allow user to wait for this asynchronous event thru poll(2), > and to clear it implicitely upon dog appeasement. > > There is only one precedent in current kernel that implements > watchdog pretimeout, ipmi_watchdog. It provides pretimeout > event thru poll, and requires a read(2) call to clear it. > > However, as write(2) does calm the dog and so wind up the > timer anyway, it is obvious to let poll(2) state writability > where pretimeout has passed. [...] -- 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
