From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net ([84.203.253.98]:17860 "HELO mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755648Ab1GLViO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:38:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4E1CBE5E.5090404@draigBrady.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:36:30 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] watchdog reboot timeout References: <20110706160744.4002.94920.stgit@bhelgaas.mtv.corp.google.com> <4E15B9FD.8080003@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/07/11 17:25, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, P=E1draig Brady wrot= e: >> A related issue I noticed with iTCO_wdt is that something >> else in the kernel disables the iTCO watchdog (which my BIOS had start= ed). >> This is undesirable for obvious reasons. >=20 > This sounds related to iTCO, but unrelated to my patch. Right? Right, unrelated to your patch but it could affect you. As the kernel comes up it may reinit the iTCO, disabling the watchdog until the iTCO_wdt module is loaded and patted. cheers, P=E1draig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html