On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Kyle Roeschley wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 02:27:20PM -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 07:28:03PM -0600, Kyle Roeschley wrote: > > > When first powering on, the NI 903x/913x watchdog starts in boot mode. > > > If not switched from boot mode to user mode within 30 seconds of power > > > on, the device status LED indicates an unrecoverable error. While before > > > this was handled automatically, now add a module parameter to disable > > > this behavior. > > > > > > In order to still have a useful watchdog, also add a R/W sysfs attribute > > > `mode' which can be used to switch the watchdog mode from boot to user > > > mode (but not user to boot mode). > > > > Hmm. Instead of an attribute, why don't we just ensure the watchdog is > > in "user" mode in start()? > > > > Josh > > Seems like a good idea, except for the fact that we then lose a way to query > the current watchdog mode. Is that a problem? It isn't clear what a user would even do with that information if they had it. Josh
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