Re: IPMI watchdog question

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Wednesday 28 of July 2004 12:33, Holger Kiehl wrote:

> > Do you have CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT enabled?
>
> No this is not set. Must this be set? Actually I want that one can stop the
> watchdog gracefully. And this is done by writting a 'V' to /dev/watchdog,
> correct?
Without CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT (or nowayout=1 module option added by my 
patch just sent to lkml) when /dev/watchdog is closed then watchdog timer is 
disabled.

> I noticed that CONFIG_WATCHDOG is also not set since CONFIG_IPMI_WATCHDOG
> is set under IPMI. Must this be set?
Currently these two are unrelated in technical terms.

> Is the IPMI watchdog different to 
> all the other watchdogs or why is it listed seperatly?
CONFIG_WATCHDOG only purpose is to disable all watchdogs living in 
drivers/char/watchdog directory, nothing more. Enabling it doesn't add any 
code unless you also add some specific watchdog.

ipmi_watchdog relies on IPMI (IPMI_HANDLER) and probably that's why it's 
listed separatly.

> Holger

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz     CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
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