Re: [Patch] SMP-IOAPIC NMI Software Watchdog driver, io-apic-patch-2.1.85-D

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:30:44 +0000 (GMT)


> necessary. IRQ1 is the next most natural choice. [when there is a lockup,
> pound the keyboard for a while to generate enough IRQs]
>
> comments, suggestions, reports welcome,

Only one. Given this "watchdog" seems completely different to real watchdogs
(for now anyway) it really ought to live elsewhere in the config file in
its debug functionality (kernel debug options) until someone writes an
actual watchdog API driver using it for reboots

Alan

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