Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Watchdog: introduce "pretimeout" into framework

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On 05/21/2015 01:32 AM, fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>

Also update Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt to
introduce:
(1)the new elements in the watchdog_device and watchdog_ops struct;
(2)the new API "watchdog_init_timeouts".

Reasons:
(1)kernel already has two watchdog drivers are using "pretimeout":
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
	drivers/watchdog/kempld_wdt.c(but the definition is different)
(2)some other dirvers are going to use this: ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog

Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>
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+extern int watchdog_init_timeouts(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+                                  unsigned int pretimeout_parm,
+                                  unsigned int timeout_parm,
+                                  void (*update_limits)(struct watchdog_device *),
+                                  struct device *dev);

-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.
+The watchdog_init_timeouts function allows you to initialize the pretimeout and
+timeout fields using the module pretimeout and timeout parameter or by
+retrieving the elements in the timeout-sec property(the first element is for
+timeout, the second one is for pretimeout) from the device tree(if the module
+pretimeout and timeout parameter are invalid).
+Normally, the pretimeout value will affect the limitation of timeout, and it
+is also hardware related. So you can write a function in your driver to update
+the limitation of timeout, according to the pretimeout value. Then pass the
+function pointer by the update_limits parameter. If you driver doesn't
+need this adjustment, just pass NULL to the update_limits parameter.

You've lost me a bit with the update_limits function. watchdog_init_timeouts()
is called from the driver. Why should the function have to call back into the
driver to update the parameters which are passed from the driver ?
Seems to me the driver can do that calculation first, then call
watchdog_init_timeouts() with the result. Am I missing something ?

Thanks,
Guenter

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