On 03/15/2012 11:59 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > Short selfintro for the watchdog people: I'm a FOSS developer / enthusiast > for close to 15 years now. I've written Linux kernel drivers for a ton > of webcams and various hwmon IC's. > > Three of the hwmon drivers I maintain are IC's which also include a watchdog > part in their hwmon solution. > > This is a resend of a series of watchdog_dev patches which I initially send > on Sep 12 2011: > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-September/033707.html > And which unfortunately has seen 0 reviews / feedback since then. > > This resend is re-based on top of v3.3-rc7 > > Currently the hwmon drivers I maintain are implementing the watchdog API > all by themselves, I would very much like to switch them over to > watchdog_dev to remove a lot of code duplication, but there currently > are 2 things stopping me from moving them over: > > 1) The driver core only works for 1 watchdog, but both my fschmd and my sch5636 > test systems also have an iTCO watchdog and that tends to load first. Thus when > writing the fschmd watchdog code I made it support loading either on the > default watchdog minor, or on one of the additional reserved watchdog minors > (212-215). The first patch in this series adds support for this to the > watchdog timer driver core (which was quite straightforward to add). I noticed Alan Cox recently proposed multiple watchdog device support https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/28/473 cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
