Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Guenter Roeck]

On 06/10/2015 08:45 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Fu Wei wrote:
> > Could you suggest a good way to use WS0, so we can follow SBSA spec?
>
> To avoid the timeout/2 problem, WS0 calls panic, which is the "real" timeout/reset.  WS1 is then a "backup" that is ignored by the driver. That is, the driver doesn't do anything with WS1 and it doesn't tell the kernel about WS1.
>
> I know you don't like the idea of WS1 as a backup timeout, but this is one way to solve the problem.
This is what I would do.

Guenter

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