On 08/05/2013 12:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > Hi Harald, > > Since some drivers do the soft kicking. That is if BIOS has enabled > watchdog, then kernel driver kicks the hardware till user space watchdog > daemon comes along. This can help sove the problem in kdump which kdump > kernel reboot before vmcore saving is finished. That problem is > triggered because watchdog started in 1st kernel and timeout because of > stopping being kicked. > > I noticed in 04watchdog the watchdog.sh will start watchdog if > /dev/watchdog exists. I am just wondering if it's needed to start > watchdog by accessing /dev/watchdog. If starting watchdog is not needed, > I want to make some code change of watchdog.sh. > > What's your suggestion? > > Baoquan > Thanks a lot Basically the 04watchdog module was used only in the testsuite. You might consider to use the systemd watchdog feature instead. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/watchdog.html or, if 0pointer is down again: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jYfJU_fFZy8J:0pointer.de/blog/projects/watchdog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
