Re: [PATCH v8 0/10] watchdog: Add support for keepalives triggered by infrastructure

2016-03-07 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 07:50:23PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > > Hi Wim, > > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 11:49:56AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > > > The watchdog infrastructure is currently purely passive, meaning > > > > it only passes

Re: [PATCH v8 0/10] watchdog: Add support for keepalives triggered by infrastructure

2016-03-07 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Guenter, > Hi Wim, > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 11:49:56AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > The watchdog infrastructure is currently purely passive, meaning > > > it only passes information from user space to drivers and vice versa. > > > > [ ... ] > > > > Patches 1

Re: [PATCH v8 0/10] watchdog: Add support for keepalives triggered by infrastructure

2016-03-07 Thread Guenter Roeck
Hi Wim, On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 11:49:56AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > > The watchdog infrastructure is currently purely passive, meaning > > it only passes information from user space to drivers and vice versa. > > [ ... ] > > Patches 1 till 7 of this series has been

Re: [PATCH v8 0/10] watchdog: Add support for keepalives triggered by infrastructure

2016-03-06 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Guenter, > The watchdog infrastructure is currently purely passive, meaning > it only passes information from user space to drivers and vice versa. > > Since watchdog hardware tends to have its own quirks, this can result > in quite complex watchdog drivers. A number of scanarios are