Patches have been accepted by upstream as can be seen in the Changelog. Tell me if I can/should do the version bump, I have it ready here. Changelog: *snip* Mon, 25 May 2009 02:46:32 +0200 - Allow config lines with arbitrary length. - Applied patch by Mike Frysinger to not use deprecated sys_siglist anymore. - Also removed configure test for sys_siglist. - Cleaned up includes, also courtesy of Mike Frysinger. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:05:29 +0100 - Applied patch by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to sets the socket handle for raw socket access to close on exec. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:37 +0100 - Applied patch by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to give a better error message if no config file is found. - Released version 5.7. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:02:23 +0100 - Applied patch by Min Zhang <mzhang@mvista.com> to make logdir a configurable option. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:26:21 +0100 - Disable OOM killer for watchdog and wd_keepalive. In the process also make sure that the daemons do not allocate memory once they are in daemon mode as a safeguard for systems running out of memory. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:50:39 +0100 - Decreased default interval from 10 seconds to just 1 because 10 is too much for some hardware especially embedded systems. Sat Mar 6 22:07:15 2010 +0100 - Applied two patches by Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org>: - uclibc does not have index(), but strchr() is equivalent to index() according to the index man page - Fix compile with USE_SYSLOG disabled Patch by Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:24:02 +0100 - Released 5.8 Mon May 10 15:48:35 2010 +0200 - Applied patches by Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>: - Implementing a timeout for repair scripts - Fixing a few bugs. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:59:53 +0200 - Added the ability to query the watchdog type based on work by Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
if the only thing your ver bump does is drop the patches, then feel free
(In reply to comment #1) > if the only thing your ver bump does is drop the patches, then feel free > Yes. Thanks. Done.
