Re: [PATCH] Export touch_nmi_watchdog

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 15:25:09 EST


On 5 Aug 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> having a more generic/portable "trigger_watchdog" function would be
> better then, such that ALL watchdogs, and not just the NMI one can hook
> into this

Why are we working around broken drivers?

I say:
 - either fix the driver
or
 - disable the watchdog entirely.

I don't see any point at all to touch_xxx_watchdog() from a driver.

                Linus

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