Commit bfb17dbd authored by Wim Van Sebroeck's avatar Wim Van Sebroeck Committed by Linus Torvalds

[WATCHDOG] v2.6.2 arch-[m68k/sparc/sparc64]-Kconfig-patch

Source WATCHDOG config info from drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig
for m68k, sparc and sparc64 architectures
parent 2b9c913d
......@@ -1012,50 +1012,7 @@ config SERIAL_CONSOLE
config USERIAL
bool "Support for user serial device modules"
config WATCHDOG
bool "Watchdog Timer Support"
---help---
If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a
character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor
number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.:
subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for
longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This
could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back
online as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog
implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to
reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which
are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside
your computer. For details, read <file:Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt>
in the kernel source.
The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon
which is available from
<ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/>. This daemon can
also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process
table is full.
If unsure, say N.
config WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
bool "Disable watchdog shutdown on close"
depends on WATCHDOG
help
The default watchdog behaviour (which you get if you say N here) is
to stop the timer if the process managing it closes the file
/dev/watchdog. It's always remotely possible that this process might
get killed. If you say Y here, the watchdog cannot be stopped once
it has been started.
config SOFT_WATCHDOG
bool "Software watchdog"
depends on WATCHDOG
help
A software monitoring watchdog. This will fail to reboot your system
from some situations that the hardware watchdog will recover
from. Equally it's a lot cheaper to install.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called softdog.
source "drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig"
config GEN_RTC
tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation" if !SUN3
......
......@@ -376,20 +376,7 @@ source "sound/Kconfig"
source "drivers/usb/Kconfig"
menu "Watchdog"
config SOFT_WATCHDOG
tristate "Software watchdog"
help
A software monitoring watchdog. This will fail to reboot your system
from some situations that the hardware watchdog will recover
from. Equally it's a lot cheaper to install.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called softdog.
endmenu
source "drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig"
menu "Kernel hacking"
......
......@@ -639,20 +639,7 @@ source "sound/Kconfig"
source "drivers/usb/Kconfig"
menu "Watchdog"
config SOFT_WATCHDOG
tristate "Software watchdog"
help
A software monitoring watchdog. This will fail to reboot your system
from some situations that the hardware watchdog will recover
from. Equally it's a lot cheaper to install.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called softdog.
endmenu
source "drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig"
source "arch/sparc64/oprofile/Kconfig"
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