Re: [PATCH] iTCO_wdt: Don't stop on shutdown with nowayout

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

On 23/02/10 15:40, Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> Currently, the watchdog is turned off when the system shuts down or the
> module is unloaded. If nowayout has been selected, this makes no sense
> and fails to restart the system if it hangs during reboot, so make it
> conditional.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom<simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
> ---
> We have a system which has such a hang, and therefore want the watchdog
> to be on until the bitter end.
>
>   drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
> index 4bdb7f1..927df26 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
> @@ -839,7 +839,8 @@ static int __devexit iTCO_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>
>   static void iTCO_wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev)
>   {
> -	iTCO_wdt_stop();
> +	if (!nowayout)
> +		iTCO_wdt_stop();
>   }
>
>   #define iTCO_wdt_suspend NULL

I see the issue, however what happens if you're
rebooting into a system that doesn't then renable the watchdog.
I've seen systems where the hardware watchdog is not reset
during the reboot process, in which case you'll get a
reboot while running the other system.

If you had a readonly system, then perhaps you
can just  WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT the hardware watchdog timeout to 1s
and wait for it to reboot the system?

cheers,
Pádraig.