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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Ken Sloat <KSloat@aampglobal.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	"nicolas.ferre@microchip.com" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	"ludovic.desroches@microchip.com"
	<ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>,
	"wim@linux-watchdog.org" <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org" <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] watchdog: atmel: atmel-sama5d4-wdt: Disable watchdog on system suspend
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:08:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190614180826.GD3369@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BL0PR07MB4115E99D065FD9BEA4C43BB5ADEE0@BL0PR07MB4115.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

On 14/06/2019 17:53:01+0000, Ken Sloat wrote:
> > The call to sama5d4_wdt_init() above now explicitly stops the watchdog
> > even if we want to (re)start it. I think this would be better handled with an
> > else case here
> > 
> >         else
> >                 sama5d4_wdt_stop(&wdt->wdd);
> > 
> 
> So we completely remove the sama5d4_wdt_init() call then correct?
> 
> To leave the code as it behaves today with the addition
> of wdt stop/start, shouldn't we call init in the else instead?
> 
> 	if (watchdog_active(&wdt->wdd))
> 		sama5d4_wdt_start(&wdt->wdd);
> 	else
> 		sama5d4_wdt_init();
> 
> I guess I don't really understand the purpose of having the init statement in resume
> in the first place. I agree, calling this first does end up essentially resetting the wdt
> it will start again if it was running before, but the count will be reset.
> 

There is a nice comment explaining why ;)


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14 12:53 [PATCH v2 1/1] watchdog: atmel: atmel-sama5d4-wdt: Disable watchdog on system suspend Ken Sloat
2019-06-14 16:46 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-14 17:53   ` Ken Sloat
2019-06-14 18:08     ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2019-06-14 18:43       ` Ken Sloat
2019-06-14 20:33         ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-06-14 20:45           ` Ken Sloat
2019-06-15 14:22             ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-20  8:33 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-07-02 13:40 ` Guenter Roeck

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