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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com>,
	Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] watchdog: Allow a driver to use milliseconds instead of seconds
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:54:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201225437.GC3110@minyard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200628145420.GA80485@roeck-us.net>

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 07:54:20AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:33:46PM -0500, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> > From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> > 
> > If the WDIOF_MSECTIMER is set, then all the timeouts in the watchdog
> > structure are expected to be in milliseconds.  Add the flag and the
> > various conversions.  This should have no effect on existing drivers.
> > 
> 
> I have decided to go another route: Instead of using a WDIOF_MSECTIMER
> flag, provide new callback functions. That increases structure sizes,
> but ultimately I think it is cleaner.
> 
> I implemented a prototype, but didn't have a chance to test it yet.
> 
> Guenter

I was wondering if you had progressed with this.  I'm happy to help with
it, if there's anything I can do.

Regards,

-corey

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-20 17:33 [PATCH 0/6] watchdog: Add millisecond-level capabilities minyard
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 1/6] watchdog: Allow a driver to use milliseconds instead of seconds minyard
2020-06-26 23:10   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-27  2:18     ` Corey Minyard
2020-06-27  4:08       ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-28 14:54   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-28 17:56     ` Corey Minyard
2020-12-01 22:54     ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2020-12-01 23:43       ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] watchdog: Add ioctls for millisecond timeout handling minyard
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 3/6] watchdog: Add millisecond precision device attributes minyard
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] watchdog: Add documentation for millisecond interfaces minyard
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 5/6] watchdog:i6300: Convert to a millisecond watchdog device minyard
2020-06-20 17:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] watchdog:softdog: Convert to a millisecond watchdog minyard

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