On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 21:40 -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote: > Daniel Walker wrote: > > Are you saying this is mostly a debugging facility ? The interrupts off > > thing I can see as just debugging, but I don't understand the bus > > lockups part. > > > > It isn't just a debugging facility. It is still beneficial to the end user > in that it restarts the system if there is a bus lockup or a faulty > interrupt > handler in a rarely used codepath. This is better than the alternative > of draining > the battery and turning off. We want this to be turned on independent of > what userspace > one is using, unless they explicitly turn it off themselves.
It doesn't sound too different that all the other watchdogs in drivers/watchdog/ .. Your just detecting lockups right? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
