linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip

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Message-Id: <2006-09-08-11-49-49+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:49:48 +0200
From:	Samuel Tardieu <sam@...1149.net>
To:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add support for w83697hg chip

On  8/09, Pádraig Brady wrote:

| Personally I don't agree with disabling the watchdog on load.
| If it is already started from the BIOS or GRUB for example,
| there will be a large window of time/logic that is not protected.

Not necessarily: you are free to load the module only when you are ready
to run the controlling program.

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