Re: iTCO watchdog last reboot reason?

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Aug 04 2020 - 12:15:54 EST


On 8/4/20 7:41 AM, Naveen Kumar P wrote:
> [ Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the list]
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I enabled the iTCO watchdog in my Linux system.
>
> sudo cat /dev/watchdog perfectly reboots my system. But, is there a
> way to find out on each boot if the machine was rebooted due to a
> watchdog timeout or not?
>
> Any ideas?
>

If the hardware supports it, the driver could set the reboot reason
in its probe function.

Guenter