linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] watchdog: sama5d4: make use of timeout-secs provided in devicetree

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Message-ID: <20180209193225.GA1932@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:32:25 +0100
From:   Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@...il.com>
To:     Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Carlo Caione <carlo@...one.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
        Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] watchdog: sama5d4: make use of timeout-secs provided
 in devicetree

The summary email did not make it for some reason.

However.
All these drivers is using watchdog_init_timeout() to set timeout.
If the timeout-parameter is set to an valid value, it will allways pick
that and not even consider if timeout-secs is set in devicetree.

Most of the patches will just remove the initial value for
timeout-parameter.

Some of the drivers allready has documented device-tree-bindings for
timeout-secs (but will not work), add property for those which not.

I wrote a similiar (tested) patch for imx2 and simply did the same to these drivers.
These patches is *NOT* tested, so please review extra carefully.


Taken from Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt:
	The watchdog_init_timeout function allows you to initialize the timeout field
	using the module timeout parameter or by retrieving the timeout-sec property from
	the device tree (if the module timeout parameter is invalid). Best practice is
	to set the default timeout value as timeout value in the watchdog_device and
	then use this function to set the user "preferred" timeout value.


Best regards
Marcus Folkesson