Re: how to allow board writers to customize driver behavior (watchdog here)

2007-05-25 Thread Daniel Newby
On 5/24/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So far the only example anyone has provided outside of periodic timers or hardware reset has been dumping the stack when something gets stuck. Softlockup does this already today, using a timer. Many watchdogs can be hooked up to a non-maskable i

Re: how to allow board writers to customize driver behavior (watchdog here)

2007-05-24 Thread Daniel Newby
On 5/24/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It sounds like your constraining your driver based on terminology. Watchdogs on most embedded platforms support either a 'reset' mode or otherwise act as periodic timers, trying to push both of these functionalities in to a watchdog driver is rat