From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756627Ab3KZMKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:10:23 -0500 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:57269 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755495Ab3KZMKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:10:21 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <52948FA8.7000609@roeck-us.net> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:10:16 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grygorii Strashko , Ivan Khoronzhuk , Santosh Shilimkar CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, wim@iguana.be, nsekhar@ti.com, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll , swarren@wwwdotorg.org, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@kernel.crashing.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] watchdog: davinci: change driver to use WDT core References: <1385388285-10553-1-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com> <1385388285-10553-2-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com> <52948184.50604@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <52948184.50604@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/26/2013 03:09 AM, Grygorii Strashko wrote: > On 11/25/2013 04:04 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote: >> To reduce code duplicate and increase code readability use WDT core >> code to handle WDT interface. >> >> Remove io_lock as the WDT core uses mutex to lock each wdt device. >> Remove wdt_state as the WDT core tracks state with its own variable. >> >> The watchdog_init_timeout() can read timeout value from timeout-sec >> property if the passed value is out of bounds. The heartbeat is >> initialized in next way. If heartbeat is not set thought module >> parameter, try to read it's value from WDT node timeout-sec property. >> If node has no one, use default value. >> >> The heartbeat is hold in wdd->timeout by WDT core, so use it in >> order to set timeout period. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk >> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar >> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck >> --- >> arch/arm/mach-davinci/da8xx-dt.c | 2 +- >> arch/arm/mach-davinci/devices-da8xx.c | 4 +- >> arch/arm/mach-davinci/devices.c | 2 +- >> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 2 + >> drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c | 151 ++++++++------------------------- >> 5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-) > > Pls note, that this patch contains both changes in platform and driver code to fix regression reported by Sekhar Nori on v2 of this series and caused by driver name changing. > > Is it ok? > > It can be splitted, but then both patches will introduce regression by itself and thing will work only if both of them will be applied together. > Splitting it would break bisect, even if applied together, so I don't think this would be a good idea. Guenter