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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-06 09:56:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-06 09:56:40 -0700
commit14e71e4fb94c340273534a6d7f210aa82a3ca717 (patch)
tree668c4ebb39e94755835364d2ba16615ae8c4ec82 /Documentation
parentab195c58b864802c15e494f06ae109413e12d50b (diff)
parent8ba42bd88c6982fe224b09c33151c797b0fdf1a5 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] hpwdt - fix lower timeout limit [WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt: TCO Watchdog patch for additional Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs [WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl. [WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync() [WATCHDOG] set max63xx driver as ARM only [WATCHDOG] powerpc: pika_wdt ident cannot be const
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt5
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
index 4cf72f3fa8e9..ba45803a2216 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ int main(void)
ret = -1;
break;
}
- ret = fsync(fd);
- if (ret)
- break;
sleep(10);
}
close(fd);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
index a750532ffcf8..63fdc34ceb98 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static void keep_alive(void)
*/
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
+ int flags;
+
fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_WRONLY);
if (fd == -1) {
@@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (argc > 1) {
if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-d", 2)) {
- ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_DISABLECARD);
+ flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD;
+ ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card disabled.\n");
fflush(stderr);
exit(0);
} else if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-e", 2)) {
- ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_ENABLECARD);
+ flags = WDIOS_ENABLECARD;
+ ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card enabled.\n");
fflush(stderr);
exit(0);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 4cc4ba9d7150..eb7132ed8bbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -222,11 +222,10 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature);
Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of
-the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one
-supporting this ioctl.
+the cards operation.
int options = 0;
- ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options);
+ ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &options);
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