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.
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Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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