On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 19:18 -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote: > The msm watchdog driver is present in kernel only. It does not use the > built-in Linux watchdog api. This is because the primary function of > our watchdog is detecting bus lockups and interrupts being turned off > for long periods of time. We wanted this functionality to be present > regardless of the userspace the kernel is running beneath. Userspace > is > free to have its own watchdog implemented in software. Are you saying this is mostly a debugging facility ? The interrupts off thing I can see as just debugging, but I don't understand the bus lockups part. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
