Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] watchdog: meson_gxbb_wdt: remove stop_on_reboot

From: Art Nikpal
Date: Tue Nov 09 2021 - 03:00:00 EST


hi Guenter Roeck
why still not merged to upstream ?

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:14 PM Artem Lapkin <email2tema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Remove watchdog_stop_on_reboot()
>
> Meson platform still have some hardware drivers problems for some
> configurations which can freeze device on shutdown/reboot stage and i
> think better to have reboot warranty by default.
>
> I feel that it is important to keep the watchdog running during the
> reboot sequence, in the event that an abnormal driver freezes the reboot
> process.
>
> This is my personal opinion and I hope the driver authors will agree
> with my proposal, or just ignore this commit if not.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-watchdog/20210729072308.1908904-1-art@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
>
> Signed-off-by: Artem Lapkin <art@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> index 945f5e65db57..d3c9e2f6e63b 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ static int meson_gxbb_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> meson_gxbb_wdt_set_timeout(&data->wdt_dev, data->wdt_dev.timeout);
>
> - watchdog_stop_on_reboot(&data->wdt_dev);
> return devm_watchdog_register_device(dev, &data->wdt_dev);
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>