Hi Jamie, > +config DW_WATCHDOG > + tristate "Synopsys DesignWare watchdog" > + select WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT I overlooked something: If your watchdog driver cannot be stopped once it's started, then it's best to add a comment about that in your code. Selecting the WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT feauture (which is overall for all drivers) is not the way to do it properly. What you should do is add a timer that ticks the watchdog if /dev/watchdog is closed. Examples for this functionality can be found in at91sam9_wdt.c, pika_wdt.c, ... Sorry, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html