On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:45:03 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> 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. To some degree, it's configurable. But the generic question still stands. It seems like a decent idea to me. Making touch_watchdog (or whatever it winds up being called) nice across arches might be fun. josh - 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/
