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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:36:19 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, monstr@...str.eu
Cc:	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, Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...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 Wednesday 05 February 2014, Michal Simek wrote:
> I am not quite sure what you mean by reports to user space.
> If you mean to get timeout through ioctl for example - then yes it is working
> through standard watchdog ioctl interface and timeout is calculated
> from hardware setup.

Yes, that is what I meant. I believe most other watchdogs let
you program the timeout, but I don't see anything wrong with
having that fixed in the FPGA in your case.

Still, the choice of putting the timeout into DT in terms of
cycles rather than miliseconds wasn't ideal from an interface
perspective and we should change that if/when we do a generic
binding. I can definitely see where it's coming from for your
case, as the cycle count totally makes sense from an FPGA
tool perspective...

	Arnd
--
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/