From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: bgat@billgatliff.com (Bill Gatliff)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:31:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos
	watchdog timer.
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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
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