Re: [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: DT: Add optional 'timeout-sec' property for sp805

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:25:34PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 23/05/18 19:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> >>On 22/05/18 19:47, Ray Jui wrote:
> >>>Update the SP805 binding document to add optional 'timeout-sec'
> >>>devicetree property
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>---
> >>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt | 2 ++
> >>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
> >>>index edc4f0e..f898a86 100644
> >>>--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
> >>>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
> >>>@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Required properties:
> >>>  Optional properties:
> >>>  - interrupts : Should specify WDT interrupt number.
> >>>+- timeout-sec : Should specify default WDT timeout in seconds. If unset, the
> >>>+                default timeout is 30 seconds
> >>
> >>According to the SP805 TRM, the default interval is dependent on the rate of
> >>WDOGCLK, but would typically be a lot longer than that :/
> >>
> >Depends on the definition of "default". In the context of watchdog drivers,
> >it is (or should be) a driver default, not a chip default.
> 
> DT describes hardware, not driver behaviour.
> 

In this case it describes expected system behavior. Most definitely
it does not describe some hardware default.

Please note that I do not engage in discussions I consider bike-shedding.
This is one of those. Dropping out.

Guenter
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