diff --git a/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/init b/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/init
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--- a/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/init
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-#!/bin/sh
-#/etc/init.d/watchdog: start watchdog daemon.
-#based on debian/init of watchdog
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:          watchdog
-# Short-Description: Start software watchdog daemon
-# Required-Start:    $local_fs
-# Required-Stop:
-# Should-Start:      
-# Should-Stop:       
-# Default-Start:     S
-# Default-Stop:
-### END INIT INFO
-
-PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
-
-test -x /usr/sbin/watchdog || exit 0
-
-# For configuration of the init script use the file
-# /etc/default/watchdog, do not edit this init script.
-
-# Set run_watchdog to 1 to start watchdog or 0 to disable it.
-
-# Specify additional watchdog options here (see manpage).
-watchdog_options=""
-
-# Specify module to load
-watchdog_module="none"
-
-run_watchdog=1
-
-[ -e /etc/default/watchdog ] && . /etc/default/watchdog
-
-NAME=watchdog
-
-DAEMON=/usr/sbin/watchdog
-
-case "$1" in
-  start)
-    if [ $run_watchdog = 1 ]
-    then
-        # do we have to load a module?
-        [ ${watchdog_module:-none} != "none" ] && /sbin/modprobe $watchdog_module
-
-        # Unconditionally start watchdog daemon because we want to run it even
-        # if wd_keepalive wasn't running
-        echo "Starting watchdog daemon..."
-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
-             --exec $DAEMON -- $watchdog_options
-    fi
-    ;;
-
-  stop)
-    if [ $run_watchdog = 1 ]
-    then
-        echo "Stopping watchdog daemon..."
-        start-stop-daemon --stop -s 9 --quiet \
-            --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid
-    fi
-    ;;
-
-  restart)
-    $0 force-reload
-    ;;
-
-  force-reload)
-    if [ $run_watchdog = 0 ]; then exit 0; fi
-    echo "Restarting ${NAME}"
-    $0 stop
-    $0 start
-    ;;
-
-  *)
-    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/watchdog {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
-    exit 1
-
-esac
-
-exit 0
-
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/sysmobts-v2/watchdog.conf b/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/sysmobts-v2/watchdog.conf
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--- a/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog/sysmobts-v2/watchdog.conf
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-#ping			= 172.31.14.1
-#ping			= 172.26.1.255
-#interface		= eth0
-#file			= /var/log/messages
-#change			= 1407
-
-# Uncomment to enable test. Setting one of these values to '0' disables it.
-# These values will hopefully never reboot your machine during normal use
-# (if your machine is really hung, the loadavg will go much higher than 25)
-#max-load-1		= 24
-#max-load-5		= 18
-#max-load-15		= 12
-
-# Note that this is the number of pages!
-# To get the real size, check how large the pagesize is on your machine.
-#min-memory		= 1
-
-#repair-binary		= /usr/sbin/repair
-#repair-timeout		= 
-#test-binary		= 
-#test-timeout		= 
-
-watchdog-device	= /dev/watchdog
-
-# Defaults compiled into the binary
-#temperature-device	=
-#max-temperature	= 120
-
-# Defaults compiled into the binary
-#admin			= root
-#interval		= 1
-#logtick                = 1
-#log-dir		= /var/log/watchdog
-
-# This greatly decreases the chance that watchdog won't be scheduled before
-# your machine is really loaded
-realtime		= yes
-priority		= 1
-
-# Check if syslogd is still running by enabling the following line
-#pidfile
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog_sysmocom.inc b/recipes-bsp/watchdog/watchdog_sysmocom.inc
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-SYSMOCOM := "${@os.path.dirname(d.getVar('FILE', True))}"
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${SYSMOCOM}/${PN}-${PV}:${SYSMOCOM}/${PN}:"
-PRINC = "9"
-
-inherit update-rc.d
-
-SRC_URI_append_sysmobts-v2 = " file://watchdog.conf file://init"
-
-do_install_append() {
-
-	if [ -e ${WORKDIR}/watchdog.conf ]; then
-		install -D -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/watchdog.conf ${D}/${sysconfdir}/
-	fi
-
-	install -D -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d/watchdog
-}
-
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/watchdog.conf"
-INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "watchdog"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN} = "start 06 S ."
-
-# bug in poky meta/classes/base.bbclass?
-PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"