Re: How to kick a secondary watchdog? (Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: sync linux-omap changes)

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> [080923 14:20]:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> > Wim, while at it, here's a related omap_wdt question:
> > 
> > Some omap devices like Nokia 770, N800 and N810 have also a secondary
> > watchdog on the retu chip connected via cbus. This watchdog needs
> > to be kicked as it cannot be disabled.
> > 
> > We've been thinking of adding a function that omap_wdt can
> > call to also kick retu_wdt too as there is only one wdt interface.
> > 
> > Is there some better solution available?
> 
> Plan is to go to a uniform watchdog driver first, then add sysfs
> capabilities and then we can add more devices via sysfs.
> For the time being: I would kick both of them at the same time
> via the /dev/watchdog interface.

Looks like we also need to do this for the twl4030 I2C companion chip
on omap 2430 and 34xx.

So we'll do something like this for now then:

static void omap_wdt_ping(struct omap_wdt_dev *wdev)
{

...

    retu_wdt_ping(wdev);
    twl4030_wdt_ping(wdev);
    
...

}

Then have retu_wdt_ping() and twl4030_wdt_ping() functions defined as
empty static inline functions if not enabled.

Thanks Alan & Wim.

Tony