On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:00:25AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 07/11/2011 04:19 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > + /* stop the watchdog */ > > + err = wdd->ops->stop(wdd); > Does it really make sense to allow stop() to fail? Will this ever happen, and Some hardware can't be stopped, sometimes depending on circumstance. > if yes do we gain anything by sending a additional ping? It would increase the chances that someone sees the error message, or that it gets written to disk or whatever (especially if the watchdog time is short). -- 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
