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authorJerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>2019-02-08 18:48:03 +0100
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>2019-03-02 15:28:17 +0100
commit00fd20b4d94ef4200993eab13a108d7c68b0202b (patch)
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parentdt-bindings: watchdog: renesas-wdt: Document r8a77470 support (diff)
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watchdog/hpwdt: Update Kconfig documentation
Update documentation relating to HPWDT_NMI_DECODING to reflect its current usage. Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog')
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/Kconfig9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
index 57f017d74a97..846dd07e9a8a 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ config HP_WATCHDOG
select WATCHDOG_CORE
depends on X86 && PCI
help
- A software monitoring watchdog and NMI sourcing driver. This driver
+ A software monitoring watchdog and NMI handling driver. This driver
will detect lockups and provide a stack trace. This is a driver that
will only load on an HP ProLiant system with a minimum of iLO2 support.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
@@ -1163,12 +1163,13 @@ config KEMPLD_WDT
called kempld_wdt.
config HPWDT_NMI_DECODING
- bool "NMI decoding support for the HP ProLiant iLO2+ Hardware Watchdog Timer"
+ bool "NMI support for the HP ProLiant iLO2+ Hardware Watchdog Timer"
depends on HP_WATCHDOG
default y
help
- When an NMI occurs this feature will make the necessary BIOS calls to
- log the cause of the NMI.
+ Enables the NMI handler for the watchdog pretimeout NMI and the iLO
+ "Generate NMI to System" virtual button. When an NMI is claimed
+ by the driver, panic is called.
config SC1200_WDT
tristate "National Semiconductor PC87307/PC97307 (ala SC1200) Watchdog"