Re: watchdog pet in kernel module

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On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:15:32 -0800, Vipul Jain said:

> currently we configure/pet the watchdog from user space via /dev/ipmi0
> device interface and I would like to do the pet part from kernel module.

That's actually defeating the purpose.  If you do it from the kernel,
you keep the watchdog from detecting a whole set of hangs that can cause
userspace to wedge up.

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