linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout framework

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Message-ID: <576D3984.9060306@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2016 06:45:40 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@...tor.com>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Robin Gong <b38343@...escale.com>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout framework

On 06/24/2016 02:46 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:38:41PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure,
>> its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog
>> pretimeout events, which may be generated by a watchdog driver.
>
> Any news? We'd really like to have it in 4.8, at least the non-sleeping
> stuff.
>

Kind of cutting it close. v4 would have to be quite clean for this to happen,
and arrive very soon. I don't think it would be a good idea to rush this in.

Guenter