From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110619151909.1403205d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106191325.17181.arnd@arndb.de>
> > Then you'd need an additional interface to specify which watchdog as soon
> > as we support multiple watchdogs.
>
> You can always have multiple ways of setting nowayout -- hardware requirements,
> global module option, local module option, and a new ioctl command -- but
> what is being used is then the logical OR of all of them.
An ioctl for it would make a lot of sense as watchdogs are often compiled
in so currently there isn't a good way to runtime set this.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 17:25 Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-18 19:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 10:03 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-19 11:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 14:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-06-19 17:29 ` Mark Lord
2011-06-22 20:13 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-23 14:13 ` Mark Lord
2011-06-24 14:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 19:17 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-06-24 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 19:56 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
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