Re: [PATCH] Watchdog Stuff (1/4)

Rob Radez (rob@osinvestor.com)
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 14:24:41 -0400


On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:43:36PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> Here are four patches for the watchdog drivers. These patches
> are against 2.4.19-pre9.
> The first patch (this one) adds WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT support to
> wafer5823wdt.c. The second patch adds Matt Domsch's 'nowayout' module
> option to the drivers that currently don't have it. The third patch
> fixes a bug where most of the "magic close character" capable drivers
> don't use get_user(). The fourth patch adds "magic close character"
> support to almost all of the remaining drivers. It also adds
> WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE to the driver info flags.

The changes (patch 1) to wafer5823wdt.c are already in my tree. Patches 3 and
4 have just been pretty much applied (except for stuff that depends on patch
2), and patch 2 is in the process of being applied. Of course, this isn't
any kind of official statement, just a progress report :-).

Regards,
Rob Radez
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