Re: watchdog
> Does it actually perform some kind of checks? What I got from the
Watchdog itself? Yes, which ones depends on your configuration. wd_keepalive
only triggers the hardware watchdog.
> documentation is that it only writes to /dev/watchdog periodically regardless
> what happens. Thus "basic watchdog functionality" would only mean that it is
> checked if the userspace process is still running.
Yes, if it doesn't the hw watchdog will reset the system.
Michael
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