On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:19 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Isn't it the default expected behaviour for a watchdog ? It depends on hardware and system requirements. You may have not just one watchdog device. > "stop watchdog on restart" is there to keep things under control during > a wanted machine reboot/restart, while still having the watchdog do its > job on an unexpected restart. Yes, that's correct. > What would be the advantage of an ioctl() compared to the existing way ? You can control stop/start at any moment for any number of watchdog devices. Thanks.
