>From your comments in this thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/25/723
>The msm watchdog driver is present in kernel only. It does not use the >built-in Linux watchdog api. This is because the primary function of >our watchdog is detecting bus lockups and interrupts being turned off Doesn't linux original implementation(kernel/watchdog.c) already cover this?If not then how does this implementation detect it i.e. bus lockup and interrupt turned off for long time? Does this piece of code can co-exist with the soft/hard lockup detection in the core kernel? >for long periods of time. We wanted this functionality to be present >regardless of the userspace the kernel is running beneath. Userspace is >free to have its own watchdog implemented in software. what does this mean, can you elaborate? >Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johls...@codeaurora.org> In my personal opinion, we should always acknowledge the code from which this code is inspired :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
