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>
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/00-INDEX b/Documentation/watchdog/00-INDEX
index ee99451..fc51128 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/00-INDEX
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
- directory holding watchdog related example programs.
watchdog-api.txt
- description of the Linux Watchdog driver API.
+watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+ - description of the Linux WatchDog Timer Driver Core kernel API.
watchdog-parameters.txt
- information on driver parameters (for drivers other than
the ones that have driver-specific files here)