Re: watchdog

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:39:30 +0100 Michael Hoeller wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| I would like to swicht on the software watchdog functionality on a 2.6 
| kernel. Unfortunately I did not understand how to do this, reading the 
| $kernel_src/Documentation/watchdog. 
| 
| Can someone, please, give me a hint?

Don't look in Documentation/* for how to enable config options.

Hint:  Watchdogs are char devices.

Look under Device Drivers, Character devices, Watchdog cards
for Software watchdog, and then enable it.


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Surely.

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~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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