Hi Oskar, > 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. > [...] No, I'm not givinbg this an ACK nor a NAK at this moment. I will review best options after the next merge window. 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
