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From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:21:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102240921.02967.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110223204330.GA7417@infomag.iguana.be>

On Wednesday 23 February 2011, 21:43:30 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> commit 1959ea403c69af855f5cd13e5c9b33123d2137b2
> Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
> Date:   Fri Jun 18 09:45:49 2010 +0000
> 
>     watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Part 5
> 
>     This part add's the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl
>     functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>     Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
> 
> [snip]

Any specific reason you can only specify seconds as timeout? There is no way 
to set a timeout of e.g. 500ms or 1500ms.
You can change this by using using a struct timeval for setting a timeout. 
What do you think?

Alexander

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-23 20:43 Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-02-23 21:59 ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-23 22:04   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-02-24  8:21 ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2011-03-03 10:38   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-03-03 12:53     ` Mark Brown
2011-03-03 16:36       ` Alexander Stein

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