Instead of stopping the hw timer during probe, have the core update
the timer if the timer is already running.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index 9f7a370..aa4101c 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
/*
* Watchdog operations
*/
+static int hpwdt_hw_is_running(void)
+{
+ return ioread8(hpwdt_timer_con) & 0x01;
+}
+
static int hpwdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
int control = 0x81 | (pretimeout ? 0x4 : 0);
@@ -302,8 +307,11 @@ static int hpwdt_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev,
hpwdt_timer_reg = pci_mem_addr + 0x70;
hpwdt_timer_con = pci_mem_addr + 0x72;
- /* Make sure that timer is disabled until /dev/watchdog is opened */
- hpwdt_stop();
+ /* Have the core update running timer until user space is ready */
+ if (hpwdt_hw_is_running()) {
+ dev_info(&dev->dev, "timer is running\n");
+ set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &hpwdt_dev.status);
+ }
/* Initialize NMI Decoding functionality */
retval = hpwdt_init_nmi_decoding(dev);
--
1.8.3.1
