On 11/15/18 4:19 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > NACK. This message is displayed if/when the watchdog application > exits without stopping the watchdog and/or without closing properly. > This _is_ critical since it will reboot the system after the next > timeout period. > > If userspace triggers this message on purpose (eg by the mentioned > script, which does not exit properly), userspace is at fault, > not the kernel. > > Guenter Thank you for the quick response, Guenter. I see the log each time when I reboot my system, and when I searched the message in google, I also found posts asking why the message is printed at reboot, and that's why I feel it's confusing. Anyways, please ignore the patch since it's necessary. Thanks, Tao Ren