linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

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Message-ID: <20110711135056.GT29245@infomag.iguana.be>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:50:56 +0200
From:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

Hi All,

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

The code will also be added to linux-2.6-watchdog-next.

Changes since V2:
* all "flags" are unsigned
* timeout values are also unsigned
* removed unnececessary debugging
* clean-up comments
* the core will be in drivers/watchdog/ and not in drivers/watchdog/core/

Kind regards,
Wim.

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