From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:53:29 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck , Felipe Balbi , Lokesh Vutla , unknown author , kernel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/4] watchdog: omap: allow to keep timer running at probe time Message-ID: <20150505135329.GJ25193@pengutronix.de> References: <1430126581-24946-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1430332727-27491-2-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <55430683.2030102@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <55430683.2030102@roeck-us.net> List-ID: Hello Guenter, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:52:19PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 04/29/2015 11:38 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > >From: unknown author > > > >On some machines it might be desirable to keep the watchdog that is > >started in the boot ROM running until userspace starts stroking it to be > >able to handle boot failures. > > > >To not introduce regressions for users not caring about the watchdog > >keep the previous behaviour of disabling the watchdog in the probe > >function unless a module parameter stop_at_probe is set to false. > > > >Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König > > Uwe, > > would this address the problem you are tryng to solve ? > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg413658.html yeah, it would. It just doesn't solve my problem now as the series isn't ready for merging yet :-) I will keep my patch locally for the project I'm working on and already provided feedback to this thread. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |