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| author | Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> | 2012-03-16 09:14:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 2012-03-27 20:15:37 +0200 |
| commit | fd7b673c92731fc6c0b1e999adfd87b6762ee797 (patch) | |
| tree | 35fafd733a2846acb1dd7a06cb7078a7fe59086f /Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | |
| parent | watchdog: ep93xx_wdt: timeout is an unsigned int value. (diff) | |
| download | linux-fd7b673c92731fc6c0b1e999adfd87b6762ee797.tar.xz linux-fd7b673c92731fc6c0b1e999adfd87b6762ee797.zip | |
watchdog: Add support for WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT IOCTL in watchdog core
This patch adds support for WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT IOCTL in watchdog core. So, there
is another function pointer added to struct watchdog_ops, which can be passed by
drivers to support this IOCTL.
Related documentation is updated too.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 7d9d1da762b6..227f6cd0e5fa 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); }; @@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are: 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 |