[PATCH] watchdog: add CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT support to PowerPC Book-E watchdog driver

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 01:43:37PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
>Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Just the moving of the clear_bit inside the #ifndef
>> CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT.
>
>If I move the clear_bit() call inside the #ifndef, then when
>CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is defined, after a process closes /dev/watchdog, no
>process will ever be able to open it again.  Are you saying that once
>wd_keepalive exits, you don't want anyone to be able to open /dev/watchdog and
>ping the timer again?

Oh, good point.  No, I don't think we want that.  So in that case:

Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

and sorry for the hassle.

josh