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authorWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2011-07-22 18:55:18 +0000
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2011-07-28 08:01:04 +0000
commit43316044d4f64da008d6aca7d4b60771b9a24eb8 (patch)
tree66d0d023a8713119d973e3c367efa21fb5a1908f /include/linux/watchdog.h
parent5efc7a6222f6408d29d6beb1142a302f31dc9eac (diff)
watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework
The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's. It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the operations that go with it. This is the introduction of this framework. This part supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's open, release and write functionality as defined in the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will follow in the next set of patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 011bcfeb9f09..5ab31bfd2906 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -59,6 +59,67 @@ struct watchdog_info {
#define WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT 0
#endif
+struct watchdog_ops;
+struct watchdog_device;
+
+/** struct watchdog_ops - The watchdog-devices operations
+ *
+ * @owner: The module owner.
+ * @start: The routine for starting the watchdog device.
+ * @stop: The routine for stopping the watchdog device.
+ * @ping: The routine that sends a keepalive ping to the watchdog device.
+ *
+ * The watchdog_ops structure contains a list of low-level operations
+ * that control a watchdog device. It also contains the module that owns
+ * these operations. The start and stop function are mandatory, all other
+ * functions are optonal.
+ */
+struct watchdog_ops {
+ struct module *owner;
+ /* mandatory operations */
+ int (*start)(struct watchdog_device *);
+ int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
+ /* optional operations */
+ int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *);
+};
+
+/** struct watchdog_device - The structure that defines a watchdog device
+ *
+ * @info: Pointer to a watchdog_info structure.
+ * @ops: Pointer to the list of watchdog operations.
+ * @driver-data:Pointer to the drivers private data.
+ * @status: Field that contains the devices internal status bits.
+ *
+ * The watchdog_device structure contains all information about a
+ * watchdog timer device.
+ *
+ * The driver-data field may not be accessed directly. It must be accessed
+ * via the watchdog_set_drvdata and watchdog_get_drvdata helpers.
+ */
+struct watchdog_device {
+ const struct watchdog_info *info;
+ const struct watchdog_ops *ops;
+ void *driver_data;
+ unsigned long status;
+/* Bit numbers for status flags */
+#define WDOG_DEV_OPEN 1 /* Opened via /dev/watchdog ? */
+};
+
+/* Use the following functions to manipulate watchdog driver specific data */
+static inline void watchdog_set_drvdata(struct watchdog_device *wdd, void *data)
+{
+ wdd->driver_data = data;
+}
+
+static inline void *watchdog_get_drvdata(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+{
+ return wdd->driver_data;
+}
+
+/* drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_core.c */
+extern int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *);
+extern void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *);
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* ifndef _LINUX_WATCHDOG_H */