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If the watchdog hardware is enabled/running during boot, e.g. due to a boot loader configuring it, we must tell the watchdog framework about this fact so that it can ping the watchdog until userspace opens the device and takes over control. Do so using the WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag that exists for exactly that use-case. Given the watchdog driver core doesn't know what timeout was originally set by whoever started the watchdog (boot loader), we make sure to update the timeout in the hardware according to what the watchdog core thinks it is. Signed-off-by: André Draszik <git@andred.net> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Cc: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <Linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.