Re: Remove "options HW_WDOG"?

From: Bruce Evans <bde_at_zeta.org.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:57:18 +1000 (EST)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Sean Kelly wrote:

> While working on my software watchdog, it has come to my attention that the
> "options HW_WDOG" in FreeBSD does absolutely nothing. does anybody actually
> use this code, or can I purge it in favor of the software watchdog?
>
> /usr/src/sys$ find . -type f |xargs grep HW_WDOG
> ./conf/NOTES:options    HW_WDOG
> ./conf/options:HW_WDOG
> ./kern/kern_shutdown.c:#ifdef   HW_WDOG
> ./kern/kern_shutdown.c:#endif   /* HW_WDOG */
>
> All the bit in kern/kern_shutdown.c does is:
>
> watchdog_tickle_fn wdog_tickler = NULL;
>
> And I can't find that being used anywhere.

watchdog_tickle_fn wdog_tickler is only used in the wd driver, which is
still undead in RELENG_4.

Bruce
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 20:57:23 UTC

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