Re: WatchDog Driver Updates

Rob Radez (rob@osinvestor.com)
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 06:58:57 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Russell King wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:35:55AM -0400, Rob Radez wrote:
> > Hmm...I'm not seeing any standards here. Some drivers would just send
> > whether the watchdog device was open, some would only send 0, sc1200
> > would send whether the device was enabled or disabled, one did 'int one=1'
> > and then a few lines later copy_to_user'd 'one', and it looks like all of
> > three of twenty would actually return proper WDIOF flags.
>
> Maybe Alan would like to comment and clear up this issue - I believe the
> interface was Alan's design. Certainly Alan wrote most of the early
> watchdog drivers.
>
> Thanks.

Ok, well, there's a new patch up at http://osinvestor.com/bigwatchdog-2.diff
that does these changes.

Regards,
Rob Radez

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