On Thursday 23 June 2011 16:13:29 Mark Lord wrote: > On 11-06-22 04:13 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > > This is another tricky thing were developers will always discuss about. > > What you don't want to happen is that the watchdog reboots your system when it does > > an fsck at bootup (for instance because the system rebooted by the watchdog and left > > the filesystem in a dirty state...). > > > > So it's more complex if you look at the overal system... > > Sure, but that's got little to do with wanting a kernel parameter to OPTIONALLY > enable a hardware watchdog timer at boot. > > Filesystem checks are a separate issue, easily worked around in practice. I agree, it's nice to give system integrators the option to enable the watchdog very early, the problems that Wim mentioned need to be solved in user space but are not a serious limitation. Arnd -- 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
