Hi Wolfram, > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Anatolij Gustschin wrote: > > If the watchdog is already enabled (e.g. started by the boot loader), > > we need to handle this case properly and start reloading the watchdog > > time-out counter as frequently as needed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx> > > Uh, this driver has not been converted to use the watchdog framework > yet? I'd suggest this should be the first step. > > @Wim: Does the watchdog core already handle the case that the wdt might > have been started by the bootloader? There is nothing for that in the core. And I think that it makes no sense to put this in the core. It's something you have to take care of during init/probe and that is driver specific. See also this message: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-watchdog/msg04066.html . 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
