Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

[Alexander Stein]

On Wednesday 23 February 2011, 21:43:30 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> commit 1959ea403c69af855f5cd13e5c9b33123d2137b2
> Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jun 18 09:45:49 2010 +0000
> 
>     watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Part 5
> 
>     This part add's the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl
>     functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [snip]

Any specific reason you can only specify seconds as timeout? There is no way 
to set a timeout of e.g. 500ms or 1500ms.
You can change this by using using a struct timeval for setting a timeout. 
What do you think?

Alexander
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