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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wim@iguana.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:49:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FEB5B6.10008@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2006-09-06-13-29-46+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On  6/09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> | I noticed you didn't include the check that's in the
> | W83627HF driver to reset the timeout if already running
> | from the BIOS. This was because some BIOS set the timeout
> | to 4 minutes for example, so when the driver was loaded
> | and reset the mode to seconds, the machine rebooted
> | before the init scripts could run and start the userspace
> | watchdog daemon.
> 
> Note that the watchdog is enabled only when the device is open and is
> signalled during the wdt_enable() routine just after switching the mode
> to seconds.

Sorry I missed that. That's fine so.

So in the case the BIOS sets the watchdog to 4 mins
for example the 2 drivers are a little different.

W83627HF resets to timeout seconds on module load
W83697HG resets to timeout seconds on /dev/watchdog open

cheers,
Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-06 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-06 10:29 [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 11:14 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-06 11:29   ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 11:49     ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2006-09-06 12:07       ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-06 12:48         ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-06 19:41         ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-07  9:57           ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-07 13:24             ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-07 16:44             ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-08  9:16               ` Pádraig Brady
2006-09-08  9:49                 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-07 17:26   ` Jim Cromie
2006-09-07 18:06     ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-08 12:22     ` Jean Delvare
2006-09-09 15:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 15:18   ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 15:33     ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 15:58     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 15:38       ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 16:28         ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 21:49           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-09 22:11             ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-09 22:27               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-09 18:02   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-09-09 18:35     ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-11  5:50     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-13 19:15     ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-14  7:15       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-09-14  7:05     ` [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator (was: watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip) Jim Cromie
2006-09-14  7:13       ` [RFC-patch 1/3] SuperIO locks coordinator Jim Cromie
2006-09-17 17:23         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-14  7:16       ` [RFC-patch 2/3] " Jim Cromie
2006-09-14  7:20       ` [RFC-patch 3/3] SuperIO locks coordinator - use in pc8736x_gpio Jim Cromie
2006-09-14 21:58       ` [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator Jim Cromie
     [not found]         ` <4dfa50520609141753h34e54fdayba62f1b127d58036@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <450A54EB.1020305@gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <4dfa50520609151118s65a980b4td143a9fbbfeb1798@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-16 17:17               ` [lm-sensors] " Jim Cromie
2006-09-19 13:11       ` Samuel Tardieu

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