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

From: Fu Wei
Date: Thu Jun 11 2015 - 01:33:30 EST


Hi Guenter

On 11 June 2015 at 13:13, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

If so, Please check the non-pretimeout version. Thanks

>
> Guenter
>



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