Re: WatchDog Driver Updates

[Alan Cox]

> > Maybe Alan would like to comment and clear up this issue - I believe the
> > interface was Alan's design.  Certainly Alan wrote most of the early
> > watchdog drivers.
> 
> Ok, well, there's a new patch up at http://osinvestor.com/bigwatchdog-2.diff
> that does these changes.

They should follow the spec. Most follow it but sometimes somewhat loosely.
In the case of checking if its running many cards can only trust the
hardware not probe it