Re: Bootup support for watchdog with short timeout (touch_nmi_watchdog()?)

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> I'm trying to implement support for a board specific watchdog on a PPC440EPx 
> board with a very short timeout. In this case, the watchdog has to 
> be "kicked" at least every 100ms, even while booting and the real watchdog 
> driver not running yet. While looking for trigger places in the kernel 
> source, I noticed the already existing "touch_nmi_watchdog()" function, which 
> seems to be doing what I need. Even if the name not exactly matches my 
> hardware setup.
> 
> My question now is, is it recommended to use this 
> touch_nmi_watchdog() "infrastructure" for my PPC custom specific watchdog 
> during bootup? And if yes, should it perhaps be renamed to a more generic 
> name, like "touch_watchdog"?
> 
> Please advise. Thanks.

No idea really.  Who would design a watchdog with such a short trigger
time?  That doesn't seem to be useful in any way.

--
Len Sorensen
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