Rasmus Villemoes [off-list ref] writes:
A bootloader may start the watchdog device before handing control to
the kernel - in that case, we should tell the kernel about it so the
watchdog framework can keep it alive until userspace opens
/dev/watchdog0.
I don't believe our current bootloaders (the closed firmware or u-boot)
set up the watchdog, but this seems reasonable since they might want to
later.
Acked-by: Eric Anholt <redacted>
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