Re: Further WatchDog Updates

Rob Radez (rob@osinvestor.com)
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 06:49:20 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Corey Minyard wrote:

> Rob Radez wrote:
>
> >Ok, new version of watchdog updates is up at
> >http://osinvestor.com/bigwatchdog-4.diff
> >
> Could the timeout be in milliseconds? A lot of watchdogs have lower
> resolution, and I have written applications that require a lower
> resolution than a second. Milliseconds is small enough to not cause
> problems, but big enough to give a good range of time.

Not in 2.4, and I wonder if that might be too fine-grained for some
drivers which have an upper limit of 255 seconds. I also wonder if it
would be considered ugly to extend WDIOC_SETOPTIONS to have a
WDIOS_TIMEINMILLI bit.

Regards,
Rob Radez

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