On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now, if the option is not set we call booke_wdt_disable which > indeed does not actually _disable_ the WDT, but it does set the timer > period to the maxium value. We could go one step further and implement > a simple timer that pops and calls booke_wdt_ping if WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT > is not set, then rearms itself. That would leave the user with the > ability to perform recovery of the userspace process that exited or > died and was responsible for pinging the watchdog. I think the maximum value is still decades or centuries, so there's no real reason to complicate the code. The NOWAYOUT feature is working as designed, so I don't understand the need for this patch. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
