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

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi Bill,

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

If your system is unstable then sending a keepalive to the watchdog during this interrupt is not going to change anything neither... Or am I missing something?

Kind regards,
Wim.