On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Probing at device_initcall time lead to perverse cases where the > watchdog was probed after, say, I2C devices, which then leaves a > potentially running watchdog at the mercy of I2C device behaviour and > bus conditions. > > Load the watchdog driver early to ensure that the kernel is patting it > well before initialising peripherals. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx> I agree that we need to make sure the watchdog driver is loaded earlier. I think this is the correct method, but I'll defer to Guenter on this one. Cheers, Joel -- 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
