Re: how to allow board writers to customize driver behavior(watchdog here)

[Alan Cox]

> is this completely bad mojo ?  is there some other mechanism that
> provides what i want and i just dont know about it ?  or do i just
> make people change the driver to fit their application, thus throwing
> out the idea of keeping all board-specific details in just the boards
> file ...

There are two possibilities of interest I can think of (and maybe both
are useful). One is to deliver a signal to someone on expiry the other
would be to use notifier chains and export either the notifier or
add/remove operations. That allows multiple modules and users to chain
onto the expiry event

Take a look at include/linux/notifier.h

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