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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-04-10 14:30:45 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-04-10 14:30:45 -0400 |
| commit | 06eb4eafbdc0796d741d139a44f1253278da8611 (patch) | |
| tree | fbdb44317130c371928154c9e6903e699fe2b995 /Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | |
| parent | 32ed53b83ea5ec26a4dba90e18f5e0ff6c71eb48 (diff) | |
| parent | f68e556e23d1a4176b563bcb25d8baf2c5313f91 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 9e162465b0c..227f6cd0e5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ The Linux WatchDog Timer Driver Core kernel API. =============================================== -Last reviewed: 29-Nov-2011 +Last reviewed: 16-Mar-2012 Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct watchdog_ops { int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *); unsigned int (*status)(struct watchdog_device *); int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int); + unsigned int (*get_timeleft)(struct watchdog_device *); long (*ioctl)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int, unsigned long); }; @@ -117,11 +118,13 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are: status of the device is reported with watchdog WDIOF_* status flags/bits. * set_timeout: this routine checks and changes the timeout of the watchdog timer device. It returns 0 on success, -EINVAL for "parameter out of range" - and -EIO for "could not write value to the watchdog". On success the timeout - value of the watchdog_device will be changed to the value that was just used - to re-program the watchdog timer device. + and -EIO for "could not write value to the watchdog". On success this + routine should set the timeout value of the watchdog_device to the + achieved timeout value (which may be different from the requested one + because the watchdog does not necessarily has a 1 second resolution). (Note: the WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT needs to be set in the options field of the watchdog's info structure). +* get_timeleft: this routines returns the time that's left before a reset. * ioctl: if this routine is present then it will be called first before we do our own internal ioctl call handling. This routine should return -ENOIOCTLCMD if a command is not supported. The parameters that are passed to the ioctl |