linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] watchdog: hpwdt: drop warning after calling watchdog_init

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Message-ID: <20190419211840.GB5775@anatevka>
Date:   Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:18:41 -0600
From:   Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@....com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] watchdog: hpwdt: drop warning after calling
 watchdog_init_timeout

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:15:51PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> The core will print out details now.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied patches 1,2, and 6.  Messages are well formed when soft_margin
is out of range.

Tested-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@....com>


> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> index ef30c7e9728d..db1bf6f546ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> @@ -311,8 +311,7 @@ static int hpwdt_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev,
>  		goto error_init_nmi_decoding;
>  
>  	watchdog_set_nowayout(&hpwdt_dev, nowayout);
> -	if (watchdog_init_timeout(&hpwdt_dev, soft_margin, NULL))
> -		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Invalid soft_margin: %d.\n", soft_margin);
> +	watchdog_init_timeout(&hpwdt_dev, soft_margin, NULL);
>  
>  	if (pretimeout && hpwdt_dev.timeout <= PRETIMEOUT_SEC) {
>  		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "timeout <= pretimeout. Setting pretimeout to zero\n");
> -- 
> 2.11.0

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Jerry Hoemann                  Software Engineer   Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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