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watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout feature

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Add support for the nowayout feature to the
WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
This feature prevents the watchdog timer from being
stopped.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-22 18:59:17 +00:00
parent 017cf08051
commit 7e192b9c42
3 changed files with 22 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ It contains following fields:
watchdog_get_drvdata routines.
* status: this field contains a number of status bits that give extra
information about the status of the device (Like: is the watchdog timer
running/active, is the device opened via the /dev/watchdog interface or not,
...).
running/active, is the nowayout bit set, is the device opened via
the /dev/watchdog interface or not, ...).
The list of watchdog operations is defined as:
@@ -130,10 +130,13 @@ bit-operations. The status bits that are defined are:
* WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE: this bit stores whether or not the magic close character
has been sent (so that we can support the magic close feature).
(This bit should only be used by the WatchDog Timer Driver Core).
* WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT: this bit stores the nowayout setting for the watchdog.
If this bit is set then the watchdog timer will not be able to stop.
Note: The WatchDog Timer Driver Core supports the magic close feature. To use
the magic close feature you must set the WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE bit in the options
field of the watchdog's info structure.
Note: The WatchDog Timer Driver Core supports the magic close feature and
the nowayout feature. To use the magic close feature you must set the
WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE bit in the options field of the watchdog's info structure.
The nowayout feature will overrule the magic close feature.
To get or set driver specific data the following two helper functions should be
used: