Re: iTCO watchdog last reboot reason?

[Guenter Roeck]

On 8/4/20 10:09 AM, Naveen Kumar P wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:45 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/4/20 7:41 AM, Naveen Kumar P wrote:
>>> [ Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the list]
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I enabled the iTCO watchdog in my Linux system.
>>>
>>> sudo cat /dev/watchdog perfectly reboots my system. But, is there a
>>> way to find out on each boot if the machine was rebooted due to a
>>> watchdog timeout or not?
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> If the hardware supports it, the driver could set the reboot reason
>> in its probe function.
> Thank you Guenter for the quick response. Can you please point me to
> the corresponding patch?

I didn't say that one exists, nor that it is possible to actually implement
what I suggested. I only stated a possibility. Please feel free to implement,
test, and submit such a patch yourself.

Thanks,
Guenter