[systemd-devel] [PATCH 0/3] watchdog handling with systemd

Michael Olbrich m.olbrich at pengutronix.de
Tue Nov 22 07:08:46 PST 2011


On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:29:05AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:38:39PM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > here is a new version of the first 3 patches updated as suggested.
> > The actual /dev/watchdog handling is not part of this series. It needs some
> > more work to finish.

Ping. Any comments?

> so I tried to implement the /dev/watchdog handling inside systemd itself,
> but I'm not sure where to put it.
> I think it could be done as a unit. However, that would be a new type and
> there will only ever be one, so I'm not so sure this is the right way to do
> it. A unit would be nice to provide all the infrastructure: enable/disable,
> configuration, unit timer, etc.
> If not, the configuration could come from the global config file, cmdline
> and kernel cmdline, but the rest?
> So, to those of you that have a better understanding of the internal design
> of systemd: what's the best way to do this?

Any hints for this?

Michael

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