Hi, I am trying to implement a watchdog driver in 2.6.23 for the i.MXL cpu (based off of drivers/char/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c).
I had a question about the api doc for the watchdog (Documentation/watchdog-api.txt). Line 37 says "When the device is closed, the watchdog is disabled." Later on (Line 56) it says "Drivers will not disable the watchdog, unless a specific magic character 'V' has been sent /dev/watchdog just before closing the file." I would assume that from reading L37 that the driver would unconditionally shut down the watchdog when closing (unless CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT or the nowayout module param is specified), but line 56 seems to contradict that. Can you clarify the intended behaviour? I am not subscribed to the mailing list, so please cc: replies to me. -- Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/