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 the 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html