Dear Tom,
In message <20200924131931.GF14816@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>
> I'm talking about the case where we say we've enabled the WDT to
> supervise OS, but then bootefi something and have disabled the watchdog
> (to meet UEFI requirements) but didn't tell the user we've turned off
> the WDT that we had told them is on.
Any so-called "watchdog" that can be disabled / switched off by
software is not really woth this name. As such, the concept of
disabling a watchdog in software, is misleading at best and should
never ibe implemented.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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