Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Inform about watchdog timeout.

[Guenter Roeck]

On 7/14/24 08:46, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> When the kernel stops feeding the watchdog, inform the user that it is
> about to timeout in X seconds.
>
> The message looks like: watchdog: watchdog0: timeout in 15 seconds
>
> This is helpful to warn the user that, most likely,
> CONFIG_WATCHDOG_OPEN_TIMEOUT seconds have elapsed and the userspace hasn't
> start feeding the watchdog.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@xxxxxxx>

I don't like noisiness in the kernel, and I don't see value in this message.

Maybe Wim thinks otherwise, but for me this is NACK.

Guenter