Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:19:10 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960 |
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> > It doesn't sound too different that all the other watchdogs in > > drivers/watchdog/ .. Your just detecting lockups right? > > There are some watchdogs in there such as > drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c that can't be stopped once enabled so > the driver sets up a soft timer in the kernel that kicks the watchdog to > prevent the system rebooting. > > With this approach you could have the watchdog always enabled and being > kicked even if the userspace daemon wasn't running, but with the > flexibility of kicking it from userspace if you wanted.
sounds like a way to do it.
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