From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752322AbaDYNCm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:02:42 -0400 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:51245 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751604AbaDYNCk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:02:40 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <535A5CEE.40008@roeck-us.net> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:02:38 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Masanari Iida , wim@iguana.be, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, thomas.mingarelli@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: watchdog: Add an usage note on hpwdt with hp-asrd References: <1398423149-5028-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1398423149-5028-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/25/2014 03:52 AM, Masanari Iida wrote: > An agent software called hp-asrd from Hewlett Packard > updates same iLO watchdog timer as hpwdt does update. > So they can not be uses simultaneously. > Add this usage note in hpwdt.txt. > > Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida > --- > Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.txt | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.txt > index 9488078..719c38d 100644 > --- a/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.txt > +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.txt > @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ Last reviewed: 06/02/2009 > > Hypertransport/CSI Error 31h > > - > +hpwdt can not work as expected if hp-asrd is running simultaneously. > +Because both hpwdt and hp-asrd update same iLO watchdog timer. > How about adding a note here explaining that hp-asrd is a user space application from HP (assuming that is what it is) ? Guenter