Running Finit on a kernel or system without WDT support built-in should
not trigger an error message from Finit.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
When Finit enters shutdown/reboot we need to advise any watchdogd that
we are going down *before* we unmount any file systems. This to let
the user save any state, e.g. reboot counters, to disk. Right before
we call reboot() in Finit we send SIGTERM to the watchdogd to give it
the chance to use the WDT to reboot the system.
The WDT cricuitry on embedded systems is often connected to the RESETn
logic of all relevant board compoents, whereas reboot() only reboots the
SoC with the CPU. Hence, a WDT reboot is more efficient and more like a
regular power cycle, which users of embedded systems often want.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch not only greatly simplifies the registration of the built-in
watchdog daemon, it also fixes a nasty race condition with an external
watchdog daemon. The INIT_CMD_WDOG_HELLO could reach finit in reversed
order, leading to the built-in daemon shutting down, but finit killing
the just registered external daemon.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Joachim Wiberg