On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > I'm trying to implement support for a board specific watchdog on a PPC440EPx > board with a very short timeout. In this case, the watchdog has to > be "kicked" at least every 100ms, even while booting and the real watchdog > driver not running yet. While looking for trigger places in the kernel > source, I noticed the already existing "touch_nmi_watchdog()" function, which > seems to be doing what I need. Even if the name not exactly matches my > hardware setup. > > My question now is, is it recommended to use this > touch_nmi_watchdog() "infrastructure" for my PPC custom specific watchdog > during bootup? And if yes, should it perhaps be renamed to a more generic > name, like "touch_watchdog"? > > Please advise. Thanks.
No idea really. Who would design a watchdog with such a short trigger time? That doesn't seem to be useful in any way. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
