From 58b519f3e5e491d5a3e320dc525f58ac439bdde4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wim Van Sebroeck Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:48:44 +0200 Subject: [WATCHDOG] add WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT ioctl Some watchdog drivers have the ability to report the remaining time before the system will reboot. With the WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT ioctl you can now read the time left before the watchdog would reboot your system. The following drivers support this new IOCTL: i8xx_tco.c, pcwd_pci.c and pcwd_usb.c . Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt index 7dc2c1c6f779..d738ec25eaa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt @@ -134,6 +134,15 @@ There is also a get function for getting the pretimeout: Not all watchdog drivers will support a pretimeout. +Get the number of seconds before reboot: + +Some watchdog drivers have the ability to report the remaining time +before the system will reboot. The WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT is the ioctl +that returns the number of seconds before reboot. + + ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT, &timeleft); + printf("The timeout was is %d seconds\n", timeleft); + Environmental monitoring: All watchdog drivers are required return more information about the system, -- cgit v1.2.3