You might cc the driver author...
>
> Here are four patches for the watchdog drivers. These patches
> are an update to 2.4.20-pre1 of the original set against 2.4.19-pre9.
> The first patch (this one) adds WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT support to
> wafer5823wdt.c. The second patch adds Matt Domsch's 'nowayout' module
> option to the drivers that currently don't have it. The third patch
> fixes a bug where most of the "magic close character" capable drivers
> don't use get_user(). The fourth patch adds "magic close character"
> support to almost all of the remaining drivers. It also adds
> WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE to the driver info flags.
>
> Joel
> +
> + case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
> + if (get_user(new_margin, (int *)arg))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + if ((new_margin < 1) || (new_margin > 255))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + wd_margin = new_margin;
> + wafwdt_stop();
> + wafwdt_start();
> + /* Fall */
> + case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
> + return put_user(wd_margin, (int *)arg);
I really wouldnt do wafwdt_stop(); wafwdt_start(); here. The new timeout
will be set on the next watchdog ping anyway, and you need to spin_lock
and unlock round this too. Much cleaner just to drop it.
Justin
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