On Sun, May 14 2017, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 05/12/2017 05:05 AM, Sebastian Reichel wrote: >> On some systems its desirable to have watchdog reboot the system >> when it does not come up fast enough. This adds a kernel parameter >> to disable the auto-update of watchdog before userspace takes over >> and a kernel option to set the default. The info messages were >> added to shorten error searching on misconfigured systems. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Minor nitpicks below (which I fixed up in my watchdog-next branch). > Otherwise Guenter, Sebastian, can I pursuade you to take a (second) look at the patches [1] I sent 4 months ago that implement the same thing, except that they also give a .config and a boot-cmdline way to define what "fast enough" means - which is necessary in many cases where it's simply not realistic to have userspace up-and-running before the dog is hungry. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/9/408 I'm of course happy to rebase and retest those on top of current master, but the implementation and semantics should be reviewable as-is. Rasmus -- 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
