linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix book E watchdog to take WDIOC

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:14:58 +0200
From:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix book E watchdog to take WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT arg in
	seconds

Hi Chris,

> The WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT argument is supposed to be a "seconds" value.
> However, the book E wdt currently treats it as a "period" which is
> interpreted in a board-specific way.
> 
> This patch allows the user to pass in a "seconds" value and the driver
> will set the smallest timeout that is at least as large as specified
> by the user.  It's been tested on e500 hardware and works as
> expected.
> 
> The patch only modifies the CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE case, the CONFIG_4xx case
> is left unmodified as I don't have any hardware to test it on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>

Added with some small changes to keep checkpatch happy. (removed trailing spaces + changed sizeof(struct watchdog_info) to sizeof(ident) and changed some spaces in tabs).

Now we only need someone that can look at the CONFIG_4xx cases still :-)

Kind regards,
Wim.

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