Re: [2.4] (updated Watchdog wdt83627 (Winbond W83627HF/F/HG/G) driver, 2.6 backport

[Tal Kelrich <tal@musicgenome.com>]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:24:24 +0300
Tal Kelrich <tal@musicgenome.com> wrote:

> (resent due to a combination of mailer stupidity and my own
> I had to mangle Padraig's name to make it stop encoding as
> Quoted-Printable. hope this is palatable. sorry for the resends)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Tested and working on Kontron JREX-PM.
> fairly straightforward backport of w83627hf_wdt.c from 2.6.20.1
> 
> Changes from 2.6 version
> Default timeout set to 120 seconds
> Nonstandard read only proc interface (/proc/watchdog)
> Always reset timer on driver load
> Changed timeout limit to 255
> Ignores failure to acquire IO port
> 
> Caveats:
> Ignores failure to acquire IO port since it is always taken, there's
> probably a better way around that.
> Releases IO port regardless of having acquired it.
> 

Padraig's name still mangled, sorry (couldn't convince sylpheed-claws)

Changes from previous:
Added text to Configure.help file

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