From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Ohlstein Subject: Re: [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:40:27 -0700 Message-ID: <4D92B43B.5050101@codeaurora.org> References: <1301105894-22835-1-git-send-email-johlstei@codeaurora.org> <1301426560.4049.0.camel@m0nster> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:4351 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750733Ab1C3Ek2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:40:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1301426560.4049.0.camel@m0nster> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Walker Cc: Bryan Huntsman , David Brown , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Stepan Moskovchenko , Gregory Bean , Abhijeet Dharmapurikar Daniel Walker wrote: > Are you saying this is mostly a debugging facility ? The interrupts off > thing I can see as just debugging, but I don't understand the bus > lockups part. > It isn't just a debugging facility. It is still beneficial to the end user in that it restarts the system if there is a bus lockup or a faulty interrupt handler in a rarely used codepath. This is better than the alternative of draining the battery and turning off. We want this to be turned on independent of what userspace one is using, unless they explicitly turn it off themselves. Jeff --- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.