From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 11:13:28 -0500 Message-ID: <5561F8A8.4080607@codeaurora.org> References: <=fu.wei@linaro.org> <1432197156-16947-1-git-send-email-fu.wei@linaro.org> <1432197156-16947-7-git-send-email-fu.wei@linaro.org> <555DFCD4.3040701@codeaurora.org> <5560D7AC.50009@codeaurora.org> <5560DCB6.3090008@roeck-us.net> <5561E7EA.5090702@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Fu Wei Cc: Guenter Roeck , Suravee Suthikulpanit , Linaro ACPI Mailman List , linux-watchdog-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Wei Fu , G Gregory , Al Stone , Hanjun Guo , Ashwin Chaugule , Arnd Bergmann , vgandhi-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org, wim-IQzOog9fTRqzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org, Jon Masters , Leo Duran , Jon Corbet , Mark Rutland List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Fu Wei wrote: > in the first timeout, just panic() maybe not enough, in [RFC] > version of my patchset, I offer some option as "preaction" to use, but > for simplifying the first version of driver, I have deleted them. > but at least, panic() is far more useful than a simple reset. at > least, it can provide the context of the crashed system to admin. My point is that there is very little difference between 1) calling panic() on pre-timeout 2) calling panic() on timeout In both cases, the system will panic. The watchdog API says that the system should reset when a timeout occurs, so you cannot call panic() before the timeout expires. > If you want to warn user space, that will make driver more > complicated, I don't think that is a good choose for a first version. > but we can find a way to improve this later In my opinion, this "first version" is not useful. I would like to see a pre-timeout feature that does not panic or reset when a pre-timeout occurs. -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html