Re: WatchDog Driver Updates

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:52:13 +0100

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:35:55AM -0400, Rob Radez wrote:
> Hmm...I'm not seeing any standards here. Some drivers would just send
> whether the watchdog device was open, some would only send 0, sc1200
> would send whether the device was enabled or disabled, one did 'int one=1'
> and then a few lines later copy_to_user'd 'one', and it looks like all of
> three of twenty would actually return proper WDIOF flags.

Maybe Alan would like to comment and clear up this issue - I believe the
interface was Alan's design. Certainly Alan wrote most of the early
watchdog drivers.

Thanks.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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