Hi,
>I'm currently developing a driver for this watchdog-card:
> 'Antrax WatchCard PCI' -> http://www.antrax.de/ (German)
>(btw. Antrax != Anthrax)
>
>And now I have some questions:
>
>- Should I develop the driver for 4.x or 5.x or both?
Cool !
That depends where do you plan to use it. I suppose that
you only develop a 5.x version if you don't need to run it
yourself on 4.x
>- What would be the preferred method for configuring and handling the card?
> a: using a kernel module for triggering and sysctl for config?
> (this method is preferred by me)
> b: a daemon that handles all of that?
> c: a tool which could be run by cron or the like?
a of course. b and c don't make any sense, only for debugging purposes
of the saved memory, see below.
>- Are there any quirks I should take care of?
>
> The card uses a PITA-2 (PSB4610) from Infineon as PCI-Controller and has an
> optional sensor for system temperature.
>From the documentation:
># the last state of the main program (kernel) before the watchdog card
> triggered is saved on the card and can be read after booting. (With this
> help you can find out the source of the deadlock or crash of your system)
>
># the last reset-reason ('normal' power-ON, manual reset due a user- or
> failure reset, a reset triggered trough the watchdog card) can be read out.
A tool to debug these would be neat here ... Or a sysctl to read the latter ...
Martin
Martin Blapp, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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