public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Lunxue Dai <lunxue.dai@rock-chips.com>,
	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@altera.com>,
	linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: Try to get a 30 second watchdog by default
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:36:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C037E6.1000208@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421882243-3631-2-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org>

On 01/21/2015 03:17 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> The dw_wdt_set_top() function takes in a value in seconds.  In
> dw_wdt_open() we were calling it with a value that's supposed to
> represent the maximum value programmed into the "top" register with a
> comment saying that we were trying to set the watchdog to its maximum
> value.  Instead we ended up setting the watchdog to ~15 seconds.
>
> Let's fix this.  However, setting things to the "max" gives me an 86
> second watchdog in the system I'm looking at.  86 seconds feels a
> little too long.  We'll explicitly choose 30 seconds as a more
> reasonable value.
>
> NOTE: Ideally this driver should be transitioned to be a real watchdog
> driver.  Then we could use "watchdog_init_timeout" and let the timeout
> be specified in a number of ways (device tree, module parameter, etc).
> This patch should be considered a bit of a stopgap solution.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-21 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-21 23:17 [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: pat the watchdog before enabling it Doug Anderson
2015-01-21 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: Try to get a 30 second watchdog by default Doug Anderson
2015-01-21 23:36   ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-01-21 23:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: pat the watchdog before enabling it Guenter Roeck
2015-01-22  5:22 ` Jisheng Zhang
2015-01-22  5:31   ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-22 17:09   ` Doug Anderson
2015-01-23 16:03     ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 16:20       ` Doug Anderson
2015-01-23 17:02         ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26  6:22     ` Jisheng Zhang
2015-01-26 17:01       ` Doug Anderson
2015-01-27  3:44         ` Jisheng Zhang
2015-01-27  4:07           ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27  4:36             ` Jisheng Zhang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=54C037E6.1000208@roeck-us.net \
    --to=linux@roeck-us.net \
    --cc=dianders@chromium.org \
    --cc=dinguyen@altera.com \
    --cc=heiko@sntech.de \
    --cc=jszhang@marvell.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=lunxue.dai@rock-chips.com \
    --cc=wim@iguana.be \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox