Re: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: enable watchdog by default

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Hi,

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Again, I'm totally confused as to _WHY_ this needs to be y.  What is
>> causing this oops without it?  If an oops is happening, then shouldn't
>> this be a strict dependancy?  Why allow it to be disabled at all if it
>> can break your box if you don't enable it?
>
> It's not an oops, it's a warning, and again, it depends on the
> firmware being used. We don't have control over that, and we have no
> way to detect if this feature is there. It's up to the user.

I have been thinking more into it, how about looking for a WDT symbol
inside the baseimage to decide whether to turn ON/OFF WDT3, this would
mean that the code is always compiled in, but the decision to turn it
on/off is made at runtime.

Regards,

Omar
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