Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl

[Corey Minyard]

Oops, my bad, yes, it's already there.  Sorry about that.

-Corey

Andrew Morton wrote:
> minyard@xxxxxxx wrote:
>   
>> Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which
>> occurs some time before the real timeout.  The pretimeout can
>> be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic
>> the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead
>> of a blind reboot).
>>
>> The IPMI watchdog has had this built in, but this creates a standard
>> mechanism for all watchdogs and switches the IPMI driver over to it.
>>     
>
> This patch seems to be kinda-sorta already half-present in Wim's
> development tree.  Could you take a look at what's in 2.6.17-mm3, see if
> any additional work is needed and if so, send a patch against that?
>
> Then we can feed it all in when (or after) Wim does his 2.6.18 merge, which
> is hopefully soon..
>   

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