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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:12:10 +0100 From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com> To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>, Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@...el.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, nicolas.ferre@...el.com, plagnioj@...osoft.com, fabio.porcedda@...il.com, JM.Lin@...el.com, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] watchdog/at91sam9_wdt: Adjust the options of watchdog_info Hello, On Thursday 14 February 2013 00:15:22, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > Hi Wenyou, > > > Since the Watchdog Timer Mode Register can be only written only once, > > so the watchdog_info shall not support WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT > > and WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE options, remove them. > > Ik you keep using the timer, then you don't have to remove this. Why removing especially WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE (and the timer needed for that)? This is a feature removal. Without there isn't even a need for nowayout option as it is implicitly set anyway. Nevertheless I would prefere keeping the timer to allow a user to let the kernel triggering the timer upon MAGICCLOSE. Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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