From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266362AbUIWPo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:44:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266364AbUIWPo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:44:57 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1218 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266362AbUIWPow (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:44:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:39:08 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Michael Hoeller" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: watchdog Message-Id: <20040923083908.40e2fc5e.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:39:30 +0100 Michael Hoeller wrote: | Hello, | | I would like to swicht on the software watchdog functionality on a 2.6 | kernel. Unfortunately I did not understand how to do this, reading the | $kernel_src/Documentation/watchdog. | | Can someone, please, give me a hint? Don't look in Documentation/* for how to enable config options. Hint: Watchdogs are char devices. Look under Device Drivers, Character devices, Watchdog cards for Software watchdog, and then enable it. | This e-mail (and/or attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. Use or disclosure of it by anyone other than a designated addressee is unauthorized. | If you are not an intended recipient, please delete this e-mail from the computer on which you received it. We thank you for notifying us immediately. Surely. -- ~Randy MOTD: Always include version info. (Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)