Re: [-mm PATCH] set enable bit instead of lock bit of Watchdog Timer in Intel 6300 chipset

[Naveen Gupta <ngupta@google.com>]

David,

Yes, I have tested these patches. In fact I found these bugs while trying
to make the driver work on our machines.

-Naveen

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, David Härdeman wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:21:05PM -0700, Naveen Gupta wrote:
> >
> >This patch sets the WDT_ENABLE bit of the Lock Register to enable the
> >watchdog and WDT_LOCK bit only if nowayout is set. The old code always
> >sets the WDT_LOCK bit of watchdog timer for Intel 6300ESB chipset. So, we
> >end up locking the watchdog instead of enabling it.
> 
> Naveen,
> 
> thanks alot for testing the driver further and finding these bugs. I've 
> not been able to do so myself as the only computers available to me with 
> this watchdog are production-servers meaning that I've only been able to 
> test during scheduled downtimes.
> 
> Have you tested and verified that the driver works after these patches 
> have been applied?
> 
> Re,
> David
> 
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