> > It doesn't sound too different that all the other watchdogs in > > drivers/watchdog/ .. Your just detecting lockups right? > > There are some watchdogs in there such as > drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c that can't be stopped once enabled so > the driver sets up a soft timer in the kernel that kicks the watchdog to > prevent the system rebooting. > > With this approach you could have the watchdog always enabled and being > kicked even if the userspace daemon wasn't running, but with the > flexibility of kicking it from userspace if you wanted. sounds like a way to do it. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
