Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:55:03 +0200 |
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On Thursday 23 June 2011 16:13:29 Mark Lord wrote: > On 11-06-22 04:13 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > > This is another tricky thing were developers will always discuss about. > > What you don't want to happen is that the watchdog reboots your system when it does > > an fsck at bootup (for instance because the system rebooted by the watchdog and left > > the filesystem in a dirty state...). > > > > So it's more complex if you look at the overal system... > > Sure, but that's got little to do with wanting a kernel parameter to OPTIONALLY > enable a hardware watchdog timer at boot. > > Filesystem checks are a separate issue, easily worked around in practice.
I agree, it's nice to give system integrators the option to enable the watchdog very early, the problems that Wim mentioned need to be solved in user space but are not a serious limitation.
Arnd
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