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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/5] Watchdog: ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog half timeout
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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
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Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Also, if panic is enabled, the timeout needs to be adjusted accordingly
> (to only panic after the entire timeout period has expired, not after
> half of it). We can not panic the system after timeout / 2.

It's a debugging feature, not an actual watchdog timeout panic.  That's 
why it's disabled by default.

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