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From: bgat@billgatliff.com (Bill Gatliff)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos watchdog timer.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:31:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A96ED32.7000108@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090827202314.GJ29382@infomag.iguana.be>

Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> This is the only thing I'm still struggling with: the goal of a watchdog device driver is to make sure that the system reboots when the system isn't stable anymore. So why should you then trigger the interrupt?
>   

... because a hard reboot might not be the way he wants to resolve the 
situation.


b.g.

-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090821073105.GC29382@infomag.iguana.be>
2009-08-21 13:10 ` [PATCH] watchdog: Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos watchdog timer Thierry Reding
2009-08-21 22:34   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-22  8:18   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-08-24  9:04     ` Thierry Reding
2009-08-24  9:28       ` Thierry Reding
2009-08-27 20:23       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-08-27 20:31         ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2009-08-27 20:44           ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-08-28  1:32             ` Bill Gatliff
2009-08-31 12:35               ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-08-31 20:06                 ` Mark Brown
2009-08-28  6:11             ` Thierry Reding
2009-08-31 11:58               ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-09-21 14:58                 ` Thierry Reding
2009-09-23  7:26                   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-09-23 11:49                     ` Thierry Reding
2009-09-24 11:05                       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-09-24 11:09                         ` Thierry Reding
2009-08-24  9:11     ` Thierry Reding
2009-08-24  9:13       ` Wim Van Sebroeck

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