Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:09 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver |
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> > Then you'd need an additional interface to specify which watchdog as soon > > as we support multiple watchdogs. > > You can always have multiple ways of setting nowayout -- hardware requirements, > global module option, local module option, and a new ioctl command -- but > what is being used is then the logical OR of all of them.
An ioctl for it would make a lot of sense as watchdogs are often compiled in so currently there isn't a good way to runtime set this.
Alan
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