On 03/10/2013 11:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > It is unnecessary to enable the logical device and WDT0 each time > the watchdog is accessed. Do it only once during initialization. Is this also the case on systems where the superio chip is used for other things? I've the impression that this may break some systems (though I no longer have the hardware to test). Arbitration of multiple users of the superio device may be managed be a central user space app, or by a kernel level arbitrator. thanks, Pádraig. -- 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