Hi Guenter > I really don't like that idea. It defeats a significant part of the > purpose > for having a watchdog, which is to prevent user-space hangups. > > To make this a driver option is even more odd - it forces every user of > this > driver to use it in-kernel only, and makes /dev/watchdog quite useless. > > I mean, really, if you have such a watchdog, what is the point of using > the > watchdog infrastructure in the first place ? Just make it a kernel > thread or > timer-activated platform code which pings your watchdog once in a while. > No > need to get the watchdog infrastructure involved in the first place. > > Am I missing something ? I wanted to enable the watchdog timer without the watchdog application for making sure the system alive. However, I think I misunderstood the purpose of the watchdog driver. The watchdog is for detecting user-space hangups rather than kernel stall. Is it correct? If yes, this patch is totally wrong. Thanks! Milo -- 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
