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

From: Wim Van Sebroeck
Date: Thu Jul 18 2024 - 14:50:36 EST


Hi Mathieu, Guenter,

> 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.

No, I was thinking the same. So also NACK for me.

Kind regards,
Wim.