linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] watchdog: add wdt shutdown callback to disable wdt if enabled

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Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:42:20 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
CC:	Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@...iatek.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Greta Zhang <greta.zhang@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] watchdog: add wdt shutdown callback to disable
 wdt if enabled

On 08/10/2015 09:28 PM, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> Hi Guenter, Matthias,
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Matthias Brugger
> <matthias.bgg@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 01:49:11 PM Eddie Huang wrote:
>>> From: Greta Zhang <greta.zhang@...iatek.com>
>>>
>>> Without .shutdown(), watchdog might reset the system during power off.
>>> For example, if watchdog's timeout is set to 30s, then it is reset to
>>> zero by mtk_wdt_ping(). During power off, no app will ping watchdog,
>>> but watchdog is still running and may trigger reset.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greta Zhang <greta.zhang@...iatek.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@...iatek.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
>
> is the plan to land these two patches via Guenter's watchdog tree [0]?
> [0] git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog.git
>
That is Wim's tree, and Wim is the maintainer ;-).

I have the patches queued in my tree [1], and I plan to send a pull request
to Wim this week or early next week.

Guenter

---
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git/log/?h=watchdog-next

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