From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751831AbcFXNqL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:46:11 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:41716 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565AbcFXNqI (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:46:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout framework To: Wolfram Sang , Vladimir Zapolskiy References: <1465321127-19522-1-git-send-email-vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> <20160624094639.GF1603@katana> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Robin Gong , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <576D3984.9060306@roeck-us.net> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 06:45:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160624094639.GF1603@katana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/24/2016 02:46 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:38:41PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: >> The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure, >> its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog >> pretimeout events, which may be generated by a watchdog driver. > > Any news? We'd really like to have it in 4.8, at least the non-sleeping > stuff. > Kind of cutting it close. v4 would have to be quite clean for this to happen, and arrive very soon. I don't think it would be a good idea to rush this in. Guenter