John Kasunich wrote: > Peter C. Wallace wrote: > >> I think with the current driver, the watchdog cannot be disabled, probably a >> good thing... > > Seb and I were discussing that on IRC one evening. I think I convinced > him that it would be nice if the watchdog slept quietly without being > petted, until you "arm" it by setting timeout-ns to some non-zero value.
I'm convinced, but i havent done the work yet. The current status is that the watchdog works on all boards, with the behavior documented in the manpage: the watchdog is always enabled, and if you dont pet it within watchdog.timeout_ns it will bite. To pet it, run the pet_watchdog function. The default timeout is documented in the manpage (both Trunk and 2.2): it's 1 second. > I don't know if that the driver has been changed to let the dog sleep, > and if so, whether that change is in the released 2.2.8, or only on CVS > trunk. In the awesome future, the watchdog will work like this: Default timeout will be a few milliseconds, this is "a few times a reasonable servo period". The watchdog will not be "primed" until the first call to pet_watchdog(), meaning it wont bite you. The first call to pet_watchdog start the timeout. After the first call to pet_watchdog it will behave like now: keep petting it before the timeout expires or get bit. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the garage is my happy place ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
