On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: Reflowed into 80 columns. > 2) Is there a real need for having 500ms or 1500ms? why would 1 or 2 > seconds not be OK? (which are allready small timeouts for userspace > anyway...) Yes, in embedded cases. There it's much easier to have good control over userspace such that you can meet the scheduling requirements. -- 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