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From: timur@codeaurora.org (Timur Tabi)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:26:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH v10 5/5] Watchdog: ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog half timeout
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Fu Wei wrote:
> Actually,
> the SBSA watchdog driver should support only  half-timeout for panic
> the user cannot configure the length of "panic time",  He can only
> enable it, and it is automatically set to 1/2 timeout.
>
> we don't need pre-timeout here.
>
> Hope I understand you correctly:-)  sorry for your confusion
>
>> >
>> >So when pre-timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or whatever
>> >it's supposed to do.
> Actually,
> So when 1/2 timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or
> whatever it's supposed to do.
>

I understand all that.  What I'm saying is that, in the future, when 
pre-timeout support is added to the watchdog layer, I think it makes 
sense to modify this driver to use pre-timeout support.