From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wim@iguana.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:48:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FEC3A4.1030108@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2006-09-06-14-07-50+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On 6/09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
> | So in the case the BIOS sets the watchdog to 4 mins
> | for example the 2 drivers are a little different.
> |
> | W83627HF resets to timeout seconds on module load
> | W83697HG resets to timeout seconds on /dev/watchdog open
>
> Yes, I'm reluctant at changing anything set by the BIOS before the first
> *use* of the module.
Sure.
> In particular, if the watchdog was not activated by
> default in the BIOS, I'd prefer the box not to reboot just because the
> module was loaded (maybe by mistake) if no daemon open /dev/watchdog
> at least once.
Of course. To clarify, the W83627HF watchdog does not enable
the watchdog on load if the BIOS had not enabled it already.
cheers,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 10:29 [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 11:14 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-06 11:29 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 11:49 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-06 12:07 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 12:48 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2006-09-06 19:41 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-07 9:57 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-07 13:24 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-07 16:44 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-08 9:16 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-08 9:49 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-07 17:26 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-07 18:06 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-08 12:22 ` Jean Delvare
2006-09-09 15:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 15:18 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 15:33 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 15:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 15:38 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 16:28 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 21:49 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-09 22:11 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 22:27 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-09 18:02 ` [lm-sensors] " Sergey Vlasov
2006-09-09 18:02 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-09-09 18:35 ` [lm-sensors] " Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 18:35 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-11 5:50 ` [lm-sensors] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-11 5:50 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-13 19:15 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-14 7:15 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-14 7:05 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator (was: Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:05 ` [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator (was: watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip) Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:13 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 1/3] SuperIO locks coordinator Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:13 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-17 17:23 ` [lm-sensors] " Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-17 17:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-14 7:16 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 2/3] " Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:16 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:20 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 3/3] SuperIO locks coordinator - use in Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 7:20 ` [RFC-patch 3/3] SuperIO locks coordinator - use in pc8736x_gpio Jim Cromie
2006-09-26 4:33 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 3/3] SuperIO locks coordinator - use in David Hubbard
2006-09-26 14:12 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 21:58 ` [lm-sensors] [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 21:58 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-15 0:53 ` [lm-sensors] " David Hubbard
2006-09-15 7:23 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-15 18:18 ` David Hubbard
2006-09-16 17:17 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-16 17:17 ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-19 13:11 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-19 13:11 ` Samuel Tardieu
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