Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] watchdog: allow setting deadline for opening /dev/watchdogN

2019-01-16 Thread Esben Haabendal
Rasmus Villemoes writes: > If a watchdog driver tells the framework that the device is running, > the framework takes care of feeding the watchdog until userspace opens > the device. If the userspace application which is supposed to do that > never comes up properly, the watchdog is fed indefinit

[PATCH v8 0/3] watchdog: allow setting deadline for opening /dev/watchdogN

2019-01-16 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
If a watchdog driver tells the framework that the device is running, the framework takes care of feeding the watchdog until userspace opens the device. If the userspace application which is supposed to do that never comes up properly, the watchdog is fed indefinitely by the kernel. This can be espe