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    [WATCHDOG] pcwd_pci.c - get heartbeat from dip switches · 39e3a055
    Wim Van Sebroeck authored
    The PCWD cards normally use the heartbeat that is set via
    the dip-switches of the card. There are only 3 switches,
    thus 8 combinations that each have a certain heartbeat.
    The card can however be programmed with a heartbeat from
    1 till 65535 seconds. This is what our driver does: it
    programs the heartbeat on the card.
    
    There are however a lot of people that don't know that
    we set the heartbeat of the watchdog card to the value
    provided by the heartbeat module parameter. Instead they
    think that the heartbeat value is the same as set by the
    dip-switches.
    
    This patch changes the driver so that at startup you can
    take the heartbeat from the dip-switches. You do this
    by setting the heartbeat module parameter to 0. This
    patch also makes this the default behaviour.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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