Re: [PATCH 7/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

[Alan Cox]

> > Then you'd need an additional interface to specify which watchdog as soon
> > as we support multiple watchdogs.
> 
> You can always have multiple ways of setting nowayout -- hardware requirements,
> global module option, local module option, and a new ioctl command -- but
> what is being used is then the logical OR of all of them.

An ioctl for it would make a lot of sense as watchdogs are often compiled
in so currently there isn't a good way to runtime set this.

Alan
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