Re: [PATCH v2 6/4] watchdog: omap: allow to keep timer running at probe time

Uwe Kleine-König
2015-05-05T13:53:29Z

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 <unknown.author@example.com>
> >
> >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 <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
>
> 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

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