New WDT driver for 2.2.15pre16

From: Jakob Østergaard (jakob@ostenfeld.dk)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 17:53:58 EST


Hi all,

Here's a driver I hacked up for the watchdog timer on a 6020
SBC I got my hands on.

I tested this with success on the 6020 card, but I would guess
that it should work on other 60XX cards as well, but I cannot
test that myself. If anyone out there has such a beast and
has the time to test out this driver, I'd very much appreciate
it.

The driver is placed among the other WDT drivers, under
character device drivers, *HOWEVER* this is *NOT* a character
device driver (!) Where should I put the driver ??

The driver uses timers to pulse the WDT instead of relying
on a userspace program writing to /dev/watchdog. This is the
only sane choice (or ?) since the WDT has a timeout of one
second only.

Can this go into 2.2 at some point Alan ? It's really non-intrusive,
and very simple.

Patch against 2.2.15pre16 attached.

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