Setting max_hw_heartbeat_ms lets the watchdog core provide a virtual timeout if the timeout requested by user space is larger than the maximum hardware timeout. Also, it helps the watchdog core to provide heartbeats if the hardware watchdog is running while closed. Fixes: a3e376d26ace ("watchdog: tangox: Mark running watchdog correctly") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c index e7a5d0fc81d4..202c4b9cc921 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static int tangox_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) dev->wdt.ops = &tangox_wdt_ops; dev->wdt.timeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT; dev->wdt.min_timeout = 1; - dev->wdt.max_timeout = (U32_MAX - 1) / dev->clk_rate; + dev->wdt.max_hw_heartbeat_ms = (U32_MAX - 1) / dev->clk_rate; watchdog_init_timeout(&dev->wdt, timeout, &pdev->dev); watchdog_set_nowayout(&dev->wdt, nowayout); -- 2.5.0 -- 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