On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:15:32 -0800, Vipul Jain said: > currently we configure/pet the watchdog from user space via /dev/ipmi0 > device interface and I would like to do the pet part from kernel module.
That's actually defeating the purpose. If you do it from the kernel, you keep the watchdog from detecting a whole set of hangs that can cause userspace to wedge up.
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