Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964938AbWHLRqI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:46:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964932AbWHLRqI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:46:08 -0400 Received: from mail04.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.12]:32152 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030240AbWHLRqG (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:46:06 -0400 From: Thomas Koeller To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added MIPS RM9K watchdog driver Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:45:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: wim@iguana.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <200608102319.13679.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> <1155326835.24077.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1155326835.24077.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Basler AG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608121945.52202.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 29 On Friday 11 August 2006 22:07, Alan Cox wrote: > Also if this is a software watchdog why is it better than using > softdog ? > This is _not_ a software watchdog. If the timer expires, an interrupt is generated, and the timer is reset to count through another cycle. If it expires again, it resets the CPU. Thomas -- Thomas Koeller, Software Development Basler Vision Technologies An der Strusbek 60-62 22926 Ahrensburg Germany Tel +49 (4102) 463-390 Fax +49 (4102) 463-46390 mailto:thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com http://www.baslerweb.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/