Re: Softdog support on non-x86

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:34:23 +0000


On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:49:00AM -0500, Josh Wyatt wrote:
> I'd like to use the software watchdog timer, softdog.c, on the Sparc
> architecture, using kernel 2.2.17. I used this to build the module:
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/drivers/char
> gcc -c -DMODVERSIONS -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> softdog.c

Why are you building it manually? It'd be better to turn it on
using the configuration tools, and build it in the normal way?

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