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title="NEW --- - RFE: allow to configure watchdog device and support multiple watchdog devices"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61084">61084</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>RFE: allow to configure watchdog device and support multiple watchdog devices
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
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<td>Other
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<td>systemd
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<pre>With recent kernels, watchdog is not a simple misc device anymore but there can
exist multiple instances. This means that a system can have /dev/watchdog0 (-->
e.g. CPU internal watchdog timer) and /dev/watchdog1 (external watchdog
circuit) where watchdog1 is more reliable (e.g. because it generates reset
signals for external devices too).
/dev/watchdog still exists in this setup but equals to /dev/watchdog0 (misc
device is created for the first wd only).
Hence, please allow to configure the used watchdog device in a first step. In a
second step, multiple watchdogs with corresponding 'Wants =
dev-watchdogX.device' entries should be supported to cope with changed device
names due to random/parallel module loading.</pre>
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