On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:13:04AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 12:01:31PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to improve wdctl(8) to read watchdog info from /sys, but I
> > found that sysfs does not provide all information like ioctl API.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no way how from /sys get info about supported
> > watchdog features and firmware version. This info is accessible only
> > by WDIOC_GETSUPPORT ioclt (struct watchdog_info->options and
> > watchdog_info->firmware_version).
> >
> > It would be nice to have "options" and "firmware_version" also in in
> > sysfs. Please :-)
> >
>
> Makes sense. Care to submit patches implementing it ?
Frankly, although it seems like relatively simple task it would be
better if some kernel developer will do it :-)
> We would have to resolve the conflict against the existing
> firmware_version attribute provided by ziirave_wdt.
Hmm, maybe use "version" as a filename for the attribute.
Karel
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