From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751453AbcFXWNk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:13:40 -0400 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]:34808 "EHLO relay1.mentorg.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbcFXWNi (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:13:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout framework To: Guenter Roeck , Wolfram Sang References: <1465321127-19522-1-git-send-email-vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> <20160624094639.GF1603@katana> <576D3984.9060306@roeck-us.net> CC: Wim Van Sebroeck , Robin Gong , , From: Vladimir Zapolskiy Message-ID: <576DB08E.2080500@mentor.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 01:13:34 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <576D3984.9060306@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.76] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Wolfram, Guenter, On 24.06.2016 16:45, Guenter Roeck wrote: > 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. >> I continued to cut the change into smaller pieces, but then in a series a lot of code copy-paste cases between files appear, so eventually I think that the essential part should be submitted undivided. > 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. > Unfortunately the task didn't get enough priority on my end due to something else, anyway it is not abandoned. Guenter, some relatively small preliminary parts from Wolfram based on Robin's work can be included into v4.8 IMHO. -- With best wishes, Vladimir