On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Anish, > >> Certain watchdog drivers use a timer to keep kicking the watchdog at >> a rate of 0.5s (HZ/2) untill userspace times out.They do this as >> we can't guarantee that watchdog will be pinged fast enough >> for all system loads, especially if timeout is configured for >> less than or equal to 1 second(basically small values). >> >> As suggested by Wim Van Sebroeck & Guenter Roeck we should >> add this functionality of individual watchdog drivers in the core >> watchdog core. > > Have you considered the effect this change has on all watchdog drivers > that don't need a timer? No,I will drop this patch. > > Kind regards, > Wim. > -- 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
