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From: Arthur Mesh <amesh@juniper.net>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unconditional disablement of the watchdog
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:53:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150909155300.GK87550@juniper.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55EF0FE0.4060207@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:42:08AM -0700, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> This patch will break any current config on systems with watchdog.

That's true.

> You  need to ensure that:
> a) watchdog timeout is plenty to load config file even on very slow
> netboot systems.

Is there a way to achieve that programaticly and not defeat the purpose
of the watchdog? I tend to think the answer is no.

> b) disable watchdog if the config didn't opt-in to have the watchdog.

How about we leave the disabling of watchdog as is today, and instead
provide means to re-enabling it via cfg?

Thanks!


-- 
Arthur Mesh <amesh@juniper.net>
Juniper Networks
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-09 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01 14:51 [PATCH] Remove unconditional disablement of the watchdog Arthur Mesh
2015-09-08 16:42 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-09-09 15:53   ` Arthur Mesh [this message]

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