linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:13:50 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>, Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
CC:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Wei Fu <tekkamanninja@...il.com>,
	G Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Vipul Gandhi <vgandhi@...eaurora.org>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Leo Duran <leo.duran@....com>,
	Jon Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, rjw@...ysocki.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

On 06/10/2015 08:45 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Fu Wei wrote:
>> Could you suggest a good way to use WS0, so we can follow SBSA spec?
>
> To avoid the timeout/2 problem, WS0 calls panic, which is the "real" timeout/reset.  WS1 is then a "backup" that is ignored by the driver. That is, the driver doesn't do anything with WS1 and it doesn't tell the kernel about WS1.
>
> I know you don't like the idea of WS1 as a backup timeout, but this is one way to solve the problem.
>
This is what I would do.

Guenter

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