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Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:19:07 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] watchdog: imx_sc_wdt: drop warning after
 calling watchdog_init_timeout

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:37:12AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 4/29/19 3:15 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:15:53PM +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/imx_sc_wdt.c | 5 +----
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c
> > > index 86c2722f2a09..6dc24ceb1b2c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c
> > 
> > This driver isn't in next, and I don't know where to look for it.
> > 
> 
> Branch watchdog-next of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git

Thanks, found it now.
 
> > > @@ -117,10 +117,7 @@ static int imx_sc_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >   	imx_sc_wdd->parent = &pdev->dev;
> > >   	imx_sc_wdd->timeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
> > > -	ret = watchdog_init_timeout(imx_sc_wdd, 0, &pdev->dev);
> > > -	if (ret)
> > > -		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Failed to set timeout value, using default\n");
> > > -
> > > +	watchdog_init_timeout(imx_sc_wdd, 0, &pdev->dev);
> > 
> > One side effect is however that ret isn't set any more. So I wonder if a
> > failure in watchdog_init_timeout() really makes the core print the
> > details as expected.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand. The warning is printed in watchdog_init_timeout().
> What does that have to do with setting ret here or not ?

Ah, I thought the warning is done in the caller of the modified
function. Maybe this means the commit log can be improved to for
example:

	The function watchdog_init_timeout() itself already emits a
	more informative warning on failure. So drop the driver specific
	one.

Otherwise my concerns are eliminated.

Thanks
Uwe

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