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authorTimur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>2016-06-21 19:00:15 -0400
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2016-07-17 15:02:32 -0400
commit5a2d3de1960260f34da84ac27bdc1345b541f2e8 (patch)
tree1ce58d3c592c88a309402381f97bb082c3002fc3 /Documentation/watchdog
parentee279c2734b07fb74031b1626b0f097cee9de5c8 (diff)
Documentation/watchdog: add support for magic close to watchdog-test
Some drivers have the WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE set, which means that applications need to write 'V' to the watchdog device before closing, otherwise the driver won't stop the watchdog timer. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
index b3cc7aa12a72..c69153913722 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
13#include <linux/watchdog.h> 13#include <linux/watchdog.h>
14 14
15int fd; 15int fd;
16const char v = 'V';
16 17
17/* 18/*
18 * This function simply sends an IOCTL to the driver, which in turn ticks 19 * This function simply sends an IOCTL to the driver, which in turn ticks
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ static void keep_alive(void)
34 35
35static void term(int sig) 36static void term(int sig)
36{ 37{
38 write(fd, &v, 1);
37 close(fd); 39 close(fd);
38 printf("\nStopping watchdog ticks...\n"); 40 printf("\nStopping watchdog ticks...\n");
39 exit(0); 41 exit(0);
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
89 sleep(ping_rate); 91 sleep(ping_rate);
90 } 92 }
91end: 93end:
94 write(fd, &v, 1);
92 close(fd); 95 close(fd);
93 return 0; 96 return 0;
94} 97}