On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 04:19:09PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> As far as I know, there is no enough popular tool to inspect the
> current status of /dev/watchdog. watchdog device provides ioctl
> commands to return timeout value and timeleft value. The tool
> I assume is reports the values for given device.
>
> /sys/class/watchdog is provided. However, whether it
> is available or not is up to kernel build-configuration.
>
> How do you think about adding such tool to util-linux?
> Do you think such command should be in a separate project?
> If the answer is yes, what command name do you prefer to for
> the command? ("watchdog" is not good name).
>
> If the answer is no, could you tell me a project or person
> I should talk to about this command?
man wdctl :-)
# wdctl
Device: /dev/watchdog
Identity: iTCO_wdt [version 0]
Timeout: 30 seconds
Pre-timeout: 0 seconds
Timeleft: 2 seconds
FLAG DESCRIPTION STATUS BOOT-STATUS
KEEPALIVEPING Keep alive ping reply 1 0
MAGICCLOSE Supports magic close char 0 0
SETTIMEOUT Set timeout (in seconds) 0 0
Karel
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