Thread: Watchdog!?!?!?!
View Single Post
  #34   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 03-03-2009, 21:15
Alexa Stott's Avatar
Alexa Stott Alexa Stott is offline
All I do is twin.
AKA: elixir
FRC #0025 (Raider Robotix)
Team Role: College Student
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: No. Bruns., NJ/College Park, MD
Posts: 781
Alexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond reputeAlexa Stott has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to Alexa Stott
Re: Watchdog!?!?!?!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vikesrock View Post
Watchdog's exist for a reason. I would not give a blanket statement saying disable the watchdog because for a number of teams this may be a bad idea. I know that there are parts of our robot that could be broken if our code were to hang and not be disabled by the watchdog.

For some teams disabling the watchdog may be the easy solution for now, but the "better" solution is probably a properly fed watchdog.
We have not seen any problems arising from not using the watchdog, and we disabled it in all our code.
__________________
|Email:alexastott[at]gmail.com|Facebook|@zelixir|Google+|
[University of Maryland Computer Science, Psychology]
[Brunswick Eruption]
Reply With Quote