Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:19:54 +0200 | From | Wim Van Sebroeck <> | Subject | Re: How to kick a secondary watchdog? (Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: sync linux-omap changes) |
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Hi Tony,
> Wim, while at it, here's a related omap_wdt question: > > Some omap devices like Nokia 770, N800 and N810 have also a secondary > watchdog on the retu chip connected via cbus. This watchdog needs > to be kicked as it cannot be disabled. > > We've been thinking of adding a function that omap_wdt can > call to also kick retu_wdt too as there is only one wdt interface. > > Is there some better solution available?
Plan is to go to a uniform watchdog driver first, then add sysfs capabilities and then we can add more devices via sysfs. For the time being: I would kick both of them at the same time via the /dev/watchdog interface.
Regards, Wim.
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