Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] dt: add helper inline for retrieving timeout-sec property

[Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>]

On 11/19/2012 08:10 AM, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> The first user of this function is the watchdog framework.

I still have issues with this. In addition to questionable usefulness
outside the watchdog framework, I'm not even sure this is right for
watchdog framework. Watchdog timeout is not a description of h/w, but
user configuration. I think the existing mechanisms of module param or
kernel cmdline is the right way to handle this.

Rob

> Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/of.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> index b4e50d5..d60fde9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> @@ -477,4 +477,15 @@ static inline int of_property_read_u32(const struct device_node *np,
>  	return of_property_read_u32_array(np, propname, out_value, 1);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * of_get_timeout_sec() - Helper to read the timeout_sec property
> + * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
> + * @timeout:	adress of the output value
> + */
> +static inline int of_get_timeout_sec(const struct device_node *np,
> +				     u32 *timeout)
> +{
> +	return of_property_read_u32(np, "timeout-sec", timeout);
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_OF_H */
>