Commit 071bf69a authored by Shuah Khan's avatar Shuah Khan
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samples: move watchdog example code from Documentation 



Move watchdog examples to samples and remove it from Documentation
Makefile. Create a new Makefile to build watchdog. It can be built
from top level directory or from watchdog directory:

Run make -C samples/watchdog or cd samples/watchdog; make

Acked-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
parent 155fe001

Documentation/Makefile

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subdir-y := accounting auxdisplay blackfin \

	laptops pcmcia watchdog
 
	laptops pcmcia

Documentation/watchdog/Makefile

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subdir-y := src

Documentation/watchdog/src/Makefile

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# List of programs to build

hostprogs-y := watchdog-simple



# Tell kbuild to always build the programs

always := $(hostprogs-y)

Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt

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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ activates as soon as /dev/watchdog is opened and will reboot unless 
the watchdog is pinged within a certain time, this time is called the

timeout or margin.  The simplest way to ping the watchdog is to write

some data to the device.  So a very simple watchdog daemon would look

like this source file:  see Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c

like this source file:  see samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c



A more advanced driver could for example check that a HTTP server is

still responding before doing the write call to ping the watchdog.

Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt

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@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ The external event interfaces on the WDT boards are not currently supported. 
Minor numbers are however allocated for it.





Example Watchdog Driver:  see Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
 
Example Watchdog Driver:  see samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c