Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:49:48 +0200
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip
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On  8/09, P?draig Brady wrote:

| Personally I don't agree with disabling the watchdog on load.
| If it is already started from the BIOS or GRUB for example,
| there will be a large window of time/logic that is not protected.

Not necessarily: you are free to load the module only when you are ready
to run the controlling program.

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