| To: | Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Added MIPS RM9K watchdog driver |
| From: | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
| Date: | Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:43:41 +0100 |
| Cc: | wim@iguana.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <200608121945.52202.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <200608102319.13679.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> <1155326835.24077.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200608121945.52202.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
Ar Sad, 2006-08-12 am 19:45 +0200, ysgrifennodd Thomas Koeller: > 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. Ok thanks, then it does make sense for it to be in kernel. |
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