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From: Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, wim@iguana.be
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add sun4v_wdt watchdog driver
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:09:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A68F1B.80605@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A68D5F.40406@roeck-us.net>

On 01/25/2016 01:02 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 12:38 PM, Wim Coekaerts wrote:
>> This driver adds sparc hypervisor watchdog support. Timeout is set in
>> milliseconds since that is the granularity supported and it honors
>> the settings of both the watchdog-resolution and watchdog-max-timeout
>> MD properties.
>>
>> Default timeout is set at 60 seconds or 60000ms. The range is between
>> 1 second and 180 seconds. The default resolution is 1000ms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>>    - Modify sun4v_mach_set_watchdog to allow for NULL and remove
>>     time_remaining
>>    - Cleanup includes
>>    - Consolidate _start and _ping into _ping since they were the same
>>    - Fix checkpatch warnings
>>    - Remove pr_info()s
>>    - Clean up return codes to be standard kernel return values
>>    - Consolidate _init and _probe into _init
>>     Don't use platform_device anymore because this is really
>>     just a driver that depends on a hv call. This now looks more
>>     like softdog.
>>    - Cleanly check for sun4v architecture and remove extra tests
>>    - Convert to ms timer support and honor resolution
>>     since most drivers use seconds I added _ms to make it clear
>
> You can not redefine the watchdog ABI to mean milli-seconds instead of 
> seconds.

ugh ok. Then it makes honoring resolutions a bit useless (comment on
previous patch about having a fixed 1s resolution)

If I round timeout back to seconds, does the rest at least look ok now?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 20:38 [PATCH v3] Add sun4v_wdt watchdog driver Wim Coekaerts
2016-01-25 21:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-01-25 21:09   ` Wim Coekaerts [this message]
2016-01-25 21:15     ` Guenter Roeck

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