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.TH "WDTPCI_GET_STATUS" "9" "09 October 2005" "" ""

.SH NAME
wdtpci_get_status \- 
.SH SYNOPSIS
"SYNOPSIS"
.sp
\fB
.sp
int wdtpci_get_status  (int * \fIstatus\fB);
\fR
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.TP
\fB\fIstatus\fB\fR
the new status.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Extract the status information from a WDT watchdog device. There are
several board variants so we have to know which bits are valid. Some
bits default to one and some to zero in order to be maximally painful.
.PP
we then map the bits onto the status ioctl flags.