Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:40:30 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
       Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv2] [POWERPC] Add support for freescale watchdog to
 CPM serial driver.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:47:43 +0100
Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> >> If a freescale watchdog device node is present, reset the watchdog
> >> while waiting for serial input.
> > 
> > Why ? We normally rely on user space for watchdog management as only the
> > fact user space is behaving really proves a box is happy ?
> 
> This is in the boot wrapper code, not in the linux kernel.

Ok now that makes sense, thanks
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