[PATCH] watchdog: Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos watchdog timer.

Bill Gatliff bgat at billgatliff.com
Thu Aug 27 16:31:46 EDT 2009


Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> This is the only thing I'm still struggling with: the goal of a watchdog device driver is to make sure that the system reboots when the system isn't stable anymore. So why should you then trigger the interrupt?
>   

... because a hard reboot might not be the way he wants to resolve the 
situation.


b.g.

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