Re: [PATCH 4/6] Watchdog: introdouce "pretimeout" into framework

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 13:59:15 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 08:55:25AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Fu Wei wrote:
> >>>The new API function also needs to be documented in
> >>>Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt.
> >good point, thanks will do
>
> Yes, please, since my driver does not use or need any pre-timeout support,
> so I don't understand why this patch exists. What is pre-timeout anyway?

Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt; look for "Pretimeouts:".

Guenter
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