Re: [RFC V2 17/21] watchdog/dev: Add tracepoints

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

Hi Peter

On 2/16/22 17:01, Peter.Enderborg@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2/14/22 11:45, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
>> Add a set of tracepoints, enabling the observability of the watchdog
>> device interactions with user-space.
>>
>> The events are:
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_open
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_close
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_start
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_stop
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_set_timeout
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_ping
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_nowayout
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_set_keep_alive
>> 	watchdog:watchdog_keep_alive
> 
> Some watchdogs have a bark functionality, I think it should be event for that too.
> 

I understand. The problems is that I do not see the bark abstraction in the
watchdog_dev layer.

In the case I am investigating (the safety_monitor/safety_app) the bark is
outside of the "OS" view, it is an hardware action - like. shutdown.

Am I missing something? Thoughts?

-- Daniel