Subject: Re: booke_wdt being a kernel module

From: Dave Jiang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:27:35 -0700

Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Dave wrote:
>
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>> Does it make sense for the booke_wdt driver to be a kernel module?
>> Since the watchdog cannot be stopped, unloading the module after the
>> watchdog has started basically garantees a reboot.... Should
>> CONFIG_BOOKE_WDT be changed to a bool from tristate?
>>     
>
> I don't see any value in making the booke_wdt driver a module.
>
> - k
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Ok, I will make a patch to change it to bool then.