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From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] watchdog: booke_wdt: clean up status messages
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Hi Kumar,

I allready had it in the watchdog tree for a couple of weeks (and thus also in linux-next).
Are you going to sent it of to Linus or will I sent it over via the watchdog tree?

Thanks in advance,
Wim.

> 
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
> > Improve the status messages that are displayed during some operations of the
> > PowerPC watchdog timer driver.  When the watchdog is enabled, the timeout is
> > displayed as a number of seconds, instead of an obscure "period".  The "period"
> > is the position of a bit in a 64-bit timer register.  The higher the value,
> > the quicker the watchdog timeout occurs.  Some people chose a high "period"
> > value for the timer and get confused as to why the board resets within a
> > few seconds.
> > 
> > Messages displayed during open and close are now debug messages, so that they
> > don't clutter the console by default.  Finally, printk() is replaced with the
> > pr_xxx() equivalent.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c |   19 +++++++++----------
> > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> applied
> 
> - k