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From: "Mike Nuss" <mikenuss@gmail.com>
To: "Kumar Gala" <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: PowerPC dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Book-E watchdog driver questions
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:18:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a340dd0e0709251118n108799adxb60af2afa6ac9a96@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A9ADFCB-2725-4156-BE66-4E55A4987E2D@kernel.crashing.org>

> > Is there a reason that booke_wdt.c does not specify a MODULE_LICENSE?
> >> From the copyright notice at the top it appears to be GPL. As
> >> written,
> > it taints the kernel.
>
> Odd, no reason.  I'll submit a patch for that.
>
> > Also, if I test out the driver by killing my process that's doing the
> > pinging, I get a kernel panic:
>
> Its been a while since i've tried this.  I'll try it out and see what
> happens.

I also found that GETBOOTSTATUS returns 0 after the reboot. Looking at
the source code I found the comment "XXX: something is clearing TSR" -
I take that to mean that the register is being cleared by something
before the module tries to read it? In my case U-Boot may be clearing
that - I can take a look.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46F93E54.5050203@gmail.com>
2007-09-25 17:42 ` Book-E watchdog driver questions Kumar Gala
2007-09-25 18:18   ` Mike Nuss [this message]
2008-01-03 14:46     ` Mike Nuss
2007-09-25 16:59 Mike Nuss

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