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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>,
	Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>,
	Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org>,
	Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:19:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110428171909.GC7345@localhost.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110330161419.GB28252@pulham.picochip.com>

> > It doesn't sound too different that all the other watchdogs in
> > drivers/watchdog/ .. Your just detecting lockups right?
> 
> There are some watchdogs in there such as 
> drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c that can't be stopped once enabled so 
> the driver sets up a soft timer in the kernel that kicks the watchdog to 
> prevent the system rebooting.
> 
> With this approach you could have the watchdog always enabled and being 
> kicked even if the userspace daemon wasn't running, but with the 
> flexibility of kicking it from userspace if you wanted.

sounds like a way to do it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-28 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-26  2:18 [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960 Jeff Ohlstein
2011-03-29 19:22 ` Daniel Walker
2011-03-30  4:40   ` Jeff Ohlstein
2011-03-30 16:03     ` Daniel Walker
2011-03-30 16:14       ` Jamie Iles
2011-04-28 17:19         ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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