Re: [RFC] Watchdog device class

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi Corey,

> Some watchdog devices have the ability to say "I'm about to reboot you,
> do you want to do something about it?".  The IPMI watchdog calls this a
> pretimeout, but I have seen this concept on at least two other watchdog
> devices.  This can be delivered via an NMI or SMI and can be used to
> inform the OS ahead of time that it's going to reboot the system.  This
> is useful because you can panic, do a coredump, or perform other useful
> operations instead of just rebooting.
> 
> Do you think this interface belongs in the structure?

It definitely does and that's why I stored your patch from 1-Nov-2005
and added it to my experimental tree just now.

Greetings,
Wim.

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