I'm trying to have the watchdog disabled when going to standby or suspend-to-mem mode in Linux so that it doesn't restart the system. I'm using the at91sam9g45ekes board. Is there any way of doing this?

I added the flag AT91_WDT_WDIDLEHLT to the driver hoping that it would halt the watchdog but in reality what it's doing is pretty much disabling the watchdog all the time. I opened the device but never kicked the watchdog and got the "I will reset your machine !" message but nothing happened. If I go to standby the system keeps running but if i try suspend-to-mem the system reboots.

If I don't use the AT91_WDT_WDIDLEHLT flag the system will reboot if I go to standby or suspend-to-mem.