Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] watchdog: introduce watchdog.open_timeout commandline parameter

2019-01-17 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:14:42PM +, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > The watchdog framework takes care of feeding a hardware watchdog until > userspace opens /dev/watchdogN. If that never happens for some reason > (buggy init script, corrupt root filesystem or whatnot) but the kernel > itself is fin

[PATCH v8 1/3] watchdog: introduce watchdog.open_timeout commandline parameter

2019-01-16 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
The watchdog framework takes care of feeding a hardware watchdog until userspace opens /dev/watchdogN. If that never happens for some reason (buggy init script, corrupt root filesystem or whatnot) but the kernel itself is fine, the machine stays up indefinitely. This patch allows setting an upper l