[WATCHDOG] driver-for-ibm-automatic-server-restart-watchdog-fix

Add fixed timeout comments Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
git-mirror · Sep 11, 2005 · cd7b800 · cd7b800
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diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/ibmasr.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/ibmasr.c
@@ -267,7 +267,10 @@ static int asr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
 			asr_toggle();
 			return 0;
 
-
+		/*
+		 * The hardware has a fixed timeout value, so WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT
+		 * is a noop and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT always returns 256.
+		 */
 		case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
 			if (get_user(heartbeat, p))
 				return -EFAULT;