Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] watchdog: add f71862fg support

[Lutz Ballaschke <vegan.grindcore@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 14:33 +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 04:06:29PM +0200, Lutz Ballaschke wrote:
> > > Furthermore i was thinking about modifying the WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT
> ...
> > and gets 6 minutes returned by ioctl. But imho it's not very accurate to
> > > return a value of seconds if the wdt doesn't count in seconds. That might
> > > be even more confusing. This inconsistency on the part of the hardware 
> > > maybe can't get satisfyingly compensated by the driver. So i'd prefer the 
> > > most simple solution.
> ...
> The return value should be the seconds before the watchdog will reboot.
> So value should be seconds, not minutes and is best the safest value
> (so (minutes - 1) * 60 + 1 in this case ).
> Secondly: the WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT should only be a DEBUGging ioctl.
> The reason I created it, is to check if certain drivers are working
> or not. We should not use it in normal operations imho.
> 
I noticed the patches for f71862fg support in f71808e driver are still
missing in the recent pull request. This might be due to the ioctl
implementation 	(PATCHv3 2/3) mentioned above which wasn't clarified.
Since i missed to reply at your remarks this was my fault. Now i hope
the PATCHv3 1/3 and 3/3 to get through as they already were signed-off
by the author of that driver. Since the patch in question isn't
essential for driver operation i suggest to drop that issue.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

With kind regards,

Lutz Ballaschke