[Voyage-linux] Wathdog for Soekris net4521 with Voyage

[Pablo]

Hi Everyone in this list:

My name is Pablo Osuna, from Madrid in Spain. I am working in EHAS, a
foundation which is working in the development of wireless technologies
in order to help medical centers in some poor countries of South
America.

I just started with a Project for a wireless router with Soekris net4521
(ElanSC520) and Pebble distro. This week I found Voyage and I have to
say it looks quite good. 
The problem I have now is that I cant manage to make the watchdog work
properly.

Below all of the things I have seen:

- When the system boots I can read the following lines:

Starting watchdog daemon: watchdog.
Starting kernel log daemon: klogdsc520_wdt: Watchdog timer is now
enabled.

- Also if I do lsmod I can see the sc520_wdt module loaded.

- In the /etc/modules I have add sc520_wdt to the end of the file.

- /etc/watchdog.conf is as follows:

watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog
interval = 10

realtime                = yes
priority                = 1


- If I have a look at the process:

voyage:~# ps -ef | grep watchdog
root       807     1  0 21:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/watchdog
root       998   926  0 21:31 /rw/dev/ttyS0 00:00:00 grep watchdog

- But if I try to kill the process of the watchdog I get:

voyage:~# kill 807
sc520_wdt: Watchdog timer is now disabled...

but the system does not reboot itself.

I think there was a similar problem with the Watchdog in pebble with
kernel 2.4 and a patch for it was the solution. I would expect this was
fixed in kernel 2.6.

Can someone help me with this problem?.

Thanks in advance!

Pablo