On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > During probe for an always-running watchdog a timer is setup to > constantly ping the watchdog while the device is not open. The gpio to > ping the watchdog is setup to inactive. > > For a watchdog with hw_algo = "toggle" this results in a ping depending > on the initial state of the gpio, for hw_algo = "level" no ping is > generated. > > Make sure that the first automatic ping is sent immediately and not only > when the timer expires the first time. This makes the machine survive in > case more than half of the watchdog timeout is already elapsed. (Which > is very probable for the chip I'm faced with that has a timeout of one > second.) > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Makes sense. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
