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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Andrew Victor" <avictor.za@gmail.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	wim@iguana.be, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AT91SAM9/CAP9 watchdog driver
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:36:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080604123642.51449a04@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd73a99e0806040031s13e6b4a5ndc5fb3d931e1945f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:31:50 +0200
"Andrew Victor" <avictor.za@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi Andrew,
> 
> >> +             return 0;
> >
> > That looks like the wrong return value?
> 
> Since the watchdog registers are Write-Once, if the user does not
> specify a "wdt_timeout" parameter we'd still like the driver to load
> even if it's not enabled.

Surely you can avoid doing the register writes until after you check the
validity of arguments ?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-01 16:40 AT91SAM9/CAP9 watchdog driver Andrew Victor
2008-06-02  6:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-03 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-04  7:31   ` Andrew Victor
2008-06-04 11:36     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-04 18:36       ` Andrew Victor
2008-06-04 18:24         ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 19:02           ` Andrew Victor
2008-06-04 19:18             ` Alan Cox
2008-06-07  6:39 ` David Brownell

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