Re: Remove "options HW_WDOG"?

2003-07-23 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Sean Kelly wrote: > While working on my software watchdog, it has come to my attention that the > "options HW_WDOG" in FreeBSD does absolutely nothing. does anybody actually > use this code, or can I purge it in favor of the software watchdog? > > /usr/src/sys$ find . -type f

Re: Remove "options HW_WDOG"?

2003-07-23 Thread Julian Elischer
this code WAS used in the interjet. We had modules that linked in and just needed somewhere to hook into.. the hardware watchdog was held off by our software, but we needed to add code to the core-dump routines to routinely call the watchdog hold-off or we could never get a coredump because the wat

Remove "options HW_WDOG"?

2003-07-23 Thread Sean Kelly
While working on my software watchdog, it has come to my attention that the "options HW_WDOG" in FreeBSD does absolutely nothing. does anybody actually use this code, or can I purge it in favor of the software watchdog? /usr/src/sys$ find . -type f |xargs grep HW_WDOG ./conf/NOTES:optionsHW_W