Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jul 12 2011 - 14:44:16 EST
On Monday 11 July 2011 15:50:56 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> To reduce copying the same code over and over in each watchdog device driver,
> Alan Cox and myself constructed a new framework/API that consolidates the common watchdog timer driver functions.
> I incorporated the changes/feedback that I received from the second post.
>
> This framework/API consists of the following patches:
> part 1: Introduction of the WatchDog Timer Driver Core
> part 2: Add the basic ioctl functionality
> part 3: Add the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl
> part 4: Add the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl
> part 5: Add the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl
> part 6: Add the Magic Close feature
> part 7: Add the nowayout feature
> part 8: Add support for a miscdev parent device
> part 9: Add support for extra ioctl calls
> part 10: Add the minimum and maximum timeout parameters.
> part 11: Remove llseek
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, the whole series.
As far as I can tell, all the issues I've raised the last time have been
resolved, in a lot of cases by convincing me that your solution was
ok to start with ;-)
Arnd
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