From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
Marc Vertes <marc.vertes@sigfox.com>,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
HaraldWelte@viatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] watchdog: add a new driver for VIA chipsets
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:20:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111123122018.GA12227@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111123121329.GM23376@infomag.iguana.be>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:13:29PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Bottom line: Yes, there is hardware available that can only be pinged
> and not be stopped, but No, Userspace needs the start/stop and ping
> functionality so that a watchdog daemon can work correctly (which is
> important because some watchdog daemons also do application testing.
Right, but if the hardware doesn't support this functionality it seems
better to have the core deal with this rather than requiring the driver
to implement empty operations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 11:17 [PATCH RFC] watchdog: add a new driver for VIA chipsets Marc Vertes
2011-11-22 11:22 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-22 12:56 ` Rahul Bedarkar
2011-11-22 17:05 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-22 17:30 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-22 18:09 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-22 18:55 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-23 12:10 ` Dmitry Artamonow
2011-11-23 14:12 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-23 14:37 ` Mark Brown
2011-11-23 19:25 ` Dmitry Artamonow
2011-11-23 21:43 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-23 18:22 ` Harald Welte
2011-11-23 21:41 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-24 19:22 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-24 19:34 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-25 20:02 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-22 17:32 ` Mark Brown
2011-11-22 18:40 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-23 9:59 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-23 10:49 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-23 11:43 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-23 12:13 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-23 12:20 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-11-23 12:40 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-23 14:46 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-23 21:43 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-23 21:52 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-24 8:29 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-23 21:46 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-24 10:57 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-24 13:42 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-24 14:42 ` Marc Vertes
2011-11-24 15:48 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-11-24 16:47 ` Marc Vertes
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