[PATCH v4 1/6] watchdog: Add API to trigger reboots

2014-05-15 Thread Guenter Roeck
Some hardware implements reboot through its watchdog hardware, for example by triggering a watchdog timeout. Platform specific code starts to spread into watchdog drivers, typically by setting pointers to a callback functions which is then called from the platform reset handler. To simplify code

[PATCH v4 1/6] watchdog: Add API to trigger reboots

2014-05-15 Thread Guenter Roeck
Some hardware implements reboot through its watchdog hardware, for example by triggering a watchdog timeout. Platform specific code starts to spread into watchdog drivers, typically by setting pointers to a callback functions which is then called from the platform reset handler. To simplify code