Hi Greg Thanks for your response. Android watchdog is monitoring systemserver process and if it itself gets stuck because of some reasons then system doesnt restart. To handle these type of scenarios, I feel hw watchdog can be useful.
Thanks Alok. On May 3, 10:27 pm, Greg KH <gre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Alok <moondra.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Group > > I have to enable linux kernel watchdog driver on Android eclair. > > Why is this a requirement for you to do, if you do not even know > if it is necessary? > > > I read that from user space a watchdog daemon has to keep writing on / > > dev/watchdog at scheduled time to avoid the system reset. > > It depends on the watchdog driver that you use. Which one are you > using? > > > Does Android framework supports this ? > > Sure, if you write it :) > > > More query: > > Android already has watchdog (Watchdog.java) taking care of System > > Server process, so is it beneficial to enable linux kernel watchdog > > driver also ? > > How about the other question, why do you feel that enabling a kernel > watchdog would help anything out? > > confused, > > greg k-h > > -- > unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
