On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:24:12AM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote: > The at91sam9 watchdog timer can only be configured once, and the current > implementation tries to configure it in a static way: > - 2 seconds timeout > - wdt restart every 500ms > > If the timer has already been configured with different values, it returns an > error and do not create any watchdog device. > > This is not critical if the watchdog is disabled, but if it has been enabled with > different timeout values it will lead to a SoC reset. > > This patch series tries to address this issue by adapting the heartbeat value > according the WDT timer config: > - it first tries to configure the timer as requested. > - if it fails it fallbacks to the current config, adapting its heartbeat timer > to the needs > > This patch series also move to a dynamically allocated at91wdt device instead > of the static instance. > > It adds a new at91 wdt type: software. This new type make use of the at91 wdt > interrupt to trigger a software reboot. > > Finally it adds several properties to the device tree bindings. > > Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
