watchdog: Read device status through sysfs attributes

This patch adds following attributes to watchdog device's sysfs interface
to read its different status.

* state - reads whether device is active or not
* identity - reads Watchdog device's identity string.
* timeout - reads current timeout.
* timeleft - reads timeleft before watchdog generates a reset
* bootstatus - reads status of the watchdog device at boot
* status - reads watchdog device's  internal status bits
* nowayout - reads whether nowayout feature was set or not

Testing with iTCO_wdt:
 # cd /sys/class/watchdog/watchdog1/
 # ls
bootstatus  dev  device  identity  nowayout  power  state
subsystem  timeleft  timeout  uevent
 # cat identity
iTCO_wdt
 # cat timeout
30
 # cat state
inactive
 # echo > /dev/watchdog1
 # cat timeleft
26
 # cat state
active
 # cat bootstatus
0
 # cat nowayout
0

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

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+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/bootstatus
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It contains status of the watchdog
+		device at boot. It is equivalent to WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS of
+		ioctl interface.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/identity
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It contains identity string of
+		watchdog device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/nowayout
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. While reading, it gives '1' if that
+		device supports nowayout feature else, it gives '0'.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/state
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It gives active/inactive status of
+		watchdog device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/status
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It contains watchdog device's
+		internal status bits. It is equivalent to WDIOC_GETSTATUS
+		of ioctl interface.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/timeleft
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It contains value of time left for
+		reset generation. It is equivalent to WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT of
+		ioctl interface.
+
+What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/timeout
+Date:		August 2015
+Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
+Description:
+		It is a read only file. It is read to know about current
+		value of timeout programmed.