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

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:43:16 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

On Monday 11 July 2011 15:50:56 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> 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

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, the whole series.

As far as I can tell, all the issues I've raised the last time have been
resolved, in a lot of cases by convincing me that your solution was
ok to start with ;-)

	Arnd
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