From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752574AbbKXHQf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:16:35 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:52384 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752251AbbKXHQe (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:16:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:16:28 +0100 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Timo Kokkonen , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum timeout in watchdog core Message-ID: <20151124071628.GF19888@pengutronix.de> References: <1448248865-21684-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1448248865-21684-2-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1448248865-21684-2-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:67c:670:100:1d::c0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Guenter, On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 07:20:58PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Introduce an optional hardware maximum timeout in the watchdog core. > The hardware maximum timeout can be lower than the maximum timeout. > > Drivers can set the maximum hardware timeout value in the watchdog data > structure. If the configured timeout exceeds the maximum hardware timeout, > the watchdog core enables a timer function to assist sending keepalive > requests to the watchdog driver. > > Cc: Timo Kokkonen > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König Thanks Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |