linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] watchdog: xilinx: Add missing binding

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Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:13:47 +0100
From:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] watchdog: xilinx: Add missing binding

On 02/03/2014 04:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 31 January 2014, Michal Simek wrote:
>> +Optional properties:
>> +- clock-frequency      : Frequency of clock in Hz
>> +- xlnx,wdt-enable-once : 0 - Watchdog can be restarted
>> +                         1 - Watchdog can be enabled just once
>> +- xlnx,wdt-interval    : Watchdog timeout interval in 2^<val> clock cycles,
>> +                         <val> is integer from 8 to 31.
>> +
> 
> The latter two don't really seem to be xilinx specific, it would be
> reasonable to have a standard watchdog binding that mandates a common
> format for them.
> 
> I'm not sure about the enable-once flag, which seems to just map to the
> "nowayout" watchdog option that is not a hardware feature at all
> and should probably be kept as a software setting only, rather than
> settable through DT. If it is kept, it should have a standard name and
> get turned into a boolean (present/absent) property rather than a
> 0/1 integer property.
> 
> The interval should really be specified in terms of seconds or miliseconds,
> not in clock cycles.

Intention wasn't to fix binding but document current one
which is in mainline for a long time.

Apart of this - yes, wdt-enable-once is nowayout and wdt-interval should be timeout
is seconds, and clock-frequency should go out and use CCF for getting clock.

Thanks,
Michal


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