Comment # 27 on bug 1042933 from Borislav Petkov

(In reply to Jerry Hoemann from comment #26)
> Proper programming of a watchdog is a bit of an art form.

That's the nice way to put it.

> Note, the ASR is disabled by default, it must be turned on by an
> application opening /dev/watchdog etc.,. The ASR can later be
> explicitly disabled after being previously enabled.

So Thomas' example opens /dev/watchdog. How does one disable the ASR?
And while we're disabling things, how can one disable the pretimeout
too?

This way you'll have the watchdog behave as one expects it to. Just for
the sake of the test.

Thanks.