Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/10] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver

[Alexander Stein]

On Thursday 03 March 2011, 13:53:19 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> 
> Reflowed into 80 columns.
> 
> > 2) Is there a real need for having 500ms or 1500ms? why would 1 or 2
> > seconds not be OK? (which are allready small timeouts for userspace
> > anyway...)
> 
> Yes, in embedded cases.  There it's much easier to have good control
> over userspace such that you can meet the scheduling requirements.

Embedded devices are also the target why I'm requesting this.

Regards,
Alexander
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