On 11-06-19 10:19 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Then you'd need an additional interface to specify which watchdog as soon >>> as we support multiple watchdogs. >> >> You can always have multiple ways of setting nowayout -- hardware requirements, >> global module option, local module option, and a new ioctl command -- but >> what is being used is then the logical OR of all of them. > > An ioctl for it would make a lot of sense as watchdogs are often compiled > in so currently there isn't a good way to runtime set this. I wouldn't mind a kernel parameter to enable a hardware watchdog timer at boot. Currently, there's a window at startup where the watchdog is not enabled, and the system could lock up and die in there without it being triggered. Cheers -- 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
