Re: [PATCH] AT91: DT: Watchdog, remove property idle halt by default

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Hi Sylvain,

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:49:56 +0100
Sylvain Rochet <sylvain.rochet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The behavior changed when watchdog properties were added to DT, it makes
> the watchdog not counting when CPU is in idle state, therefore the
> watchdog reset time depend on mean CPU usage and will not reset at all
> if the CPU stop working while it is in idle state, which is a very weird
> behavior.
> 
> Apply principle of least surprise on at91sam9260-wdt by removing idle
> halt flag by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rochet <sylvain.rochet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you do this change for all impacted SoCs (here is a patch
doing it [1]) ?

Apart from that you can add my:

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,

Boris

[1]http://code.bulix.org/weg3zv-87745

> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9x5.dtsi | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9x5.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9x5.dtsi
> index bbb3ba6..ce61f91 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9x5.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9x5.dtsi
> @@ -1125,7 +1125,6 @@
>  				atmel,watchdog-type = "hardware";
>  				atmel,reset-type = "all";
>  				atmel,dbg-halt;
> -				atmel,idle-halt;
>  				status = "disabled";
>  			};
>  



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