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authorWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2011-07-22 18:57:23 +0000
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2011-07-28 08:01:07 +0000
commitc2dc00e494cc476551b9beeb883910391ff59737 (patch)
tree2dd417fb7e793af0bd28f9b946628662574269d4 /Documentation/watchdog
parent2fa03560ab3a6dd83cad9bfd5692179fc2ceabb3 (diff)
watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl
This part add's the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Please note that the WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has to be set in the watchdog_info options field. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 2bdc6dc6e04..abbcf2ce8f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are:
the watchdog timer driver core does: to send a keepalive ping to the watchdog
timer hardware it will either use the ping operation (when available) or the
start operation (when the ping operation is not available).
+ (Note: the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl call will only be active when the
+ WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has been set in the option field on the watchdog's
+ info structure).
* status: this routine checks the status of the watchdog timer device. The
status of the device is reported with watchdog WDIOF_* status flags/bits.