From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] watchdog reboot timeout
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:36:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1CBE5E.5090404@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo5=TQm9SLM9dE2-Sm7ZLvaSXAZOorE1z9SK9kEh9CUbNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/07/11 17:25, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
>> A related issue I noticed with iTCO_wdt is that something
>> else in the kernel disables the iTCO watchdog (which my BIOS had started).
>> This is undesirable for obvious reasons.
>
> 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,
Pádraig.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 16:09 [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] watchdog reboot timeout Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-06 16:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: iTCO_wdt: optionally leave watchdog enabled during restart Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-07 15:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-07-07 15:53 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-07-12 17:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-06 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: nv_tco: " Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-07 13:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] watchdog reboot timeout Pádraig Brady
2011-07-12 16:25 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-12 21:36 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
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