Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:28:21 +0100
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Subject: Re: w83697hf_wdt.c stops watchdog on load
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On 11/03, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

| > > Isn't it a two-edged sword?
| > 
| > True, but one should be able to set things up so that there is no race.
| > I.E. if you add the autodisable, it should only be done as an option.
| > Best have it =no by default, but as least one could turn this off.
| 
| In my opinion it should be the other way around: the default behaviour is to
| stop the watchdog and to let userspace (the watchdog-daemon) control the
| watchdog. So if we add a module parameter to take over the watchdog's
| bios-setting, then the default behaviour should be to stop the watchdog and
| add an option that takes the value from the bios.

Hi Wim.

That was my intent: disable the watchdog by default, and add an option
not to disable it (let it untouched, so getting the BIOS setting) at
module initialization, as P?draig request is totally reasonable.

  Sam

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