On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM Paul Barker via lists.openembedded.org
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>
> On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 12:08 +0200, Fabian Pflug wrote:
> > Some systems may have multiple watchdogs and want systemd to manage a
> > different one. This patch allows to set the WatchdogDevice setting in
> > system.conf
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fabian Pflug <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_259.5.bb | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_259.5.bb 
> > b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_259.5.bb
> > index f3ec0edae7..8cb523a330 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_259.5.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_259.5.bb
> > @@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT ??= "60"
> >  # and the watchdog is enabled. (defaults is no hardware watchdog use)
> >  WATCHDOG_RUNTIME_SEC ??= ""
> >
> > +# If a different device, other then /dev/watchdog0 should be used, set
> > +# WATCHDOG_DEVICE_PATH to the full path to the watchdog device.
> > +# (Will set the WatchdogDevice= option in /etc/systemd/system.conf)
> > +WATCHDOG_DEVICE_PATH ??= ""
> > +
> >  do_install() {
> >       meson_do_install
> >
> > @@ -368,6 +373,11 @@ do_install() {
> >                       ${D}/${sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf
> >       fi
> >
> > +     if [ -n "${WATCHDOG_DEVICE_PATH}" ]; then
> > +             sed -i -e 
> > 's|#WatchdogDevice=|WatchdogDevice=${WATCHDOG_DEVICE_PATH}|' \
> > +                     ${D}/${sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf
> > +     fi
> > +
> >       # Actively disable Predictable Network Interface Names
> >       if ! ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pni-names', 'true', 
> > 'false', d)}; then
> >               sed -i 
> > 's/^NamePolicy=.*/NamePolicy=/;s/^AlternativeNamesPolicy=.*/AlternativeNamesPolicy=/'
> >  ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/systemd/network/99-default.link
>
> Hi Fabian,
>
> I'm not sure we need a new variable for this. If I understand correctly
> you can install a drop-in file in ${sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf.d to
> set WatchdogDevice. That can easily be done from a bbappend or a new
> recipe without needing any changes in OE-core.

+1 on the suggestion.

That was the first thing that came to mind when I read the patch as well.

Bruce

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
>
> 
>


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