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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>2010-10-04 11:37:26 +0200
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2011-03-15 17:02:18 +0100
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parentwatchdog: Intel SCU Watchdog Timer Driver for Moorestown and Medfield platforms. (diff)
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watchdog: Xen watchdog driver
While the hypervisor change adding SCHEDOP_watchdog support included a daemon to make use of the new functionality, having a kernel driver for /dev/watchdog so that user space code doesn't need to distinguish non-Xen and Xen seems to be preferable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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@@ -1137,6 +1137,16 @@ config WATCHDOG_RIO
# XTENSA Architecture
+# Xen Architecture
+
+config XEN_WDT
+ tristate "Xen Watchdog support"
+ depends on XEN
+ help
+ Say Y here to support the hypervisor watchdog capability provided
+ by Xen 4.0 and newer. The watchdog timeout period is normally one
+ minute but can be changed with a boot-time parameter.
+
#
# ISA-based Watchdog Cards
#