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 19:24:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080604192458.02f76022@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd73a99e0806041136o2a9ee520q28752af9b6290644@mail.gmail.com>
> The issue above is rather that probe() should not fail if
> at91_wdt_settimeout() returns -EINVAL, since we'd like the
> driver/module to still load to allow the user to later specify a valid
> timeout via ioctl(WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT).
Every other watchdog behaves as follows
- If you specify a bogus value it doesn't load
- If you specify no value you get a valid default
- If you specify a valid value you get that
I don't believe yours should be different.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 18:41 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
2008-06-04 18:36 ` Andrew Victor
2008-06-04 18:24 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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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