Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add watchdog driver for Intel E6XX

From: Wim Van Sebroeck
Date: Fri Jul 22 2011 - 14:51:30 EST


Hi Alexander,

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> * Changed subject to use E6XX instead of tunnelcreek
> * Changed driver name to ie6xx_wdt
>
> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 12 ++
> drivers/watchdog/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/watchdog/ie6xx_wtd.c | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 459 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/ie6xx_wtd.c

2 remarks:
1) please fix the lines that are over 80 characters. (please use scripts/checkpatch.pl)
2) on opening /dev/watchdog your watchdog should start working. Now you have to open the device
and write to it before it starts. That's not what the watchdog API says...

Kind regards,
Wim.

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