Re: [PATCH 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

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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