If the heartbeat module param is not specified we would get an error message watchdog: f1020300.watchdog: driver supplied timeout (4294967295) out of range watchdog: f1020300.watchdog: falling back to default timeout (171) This is because we were initialising heartbeat to -1. By removing the initialisation (thus letting the C run time initialise it to 0) we silence the warning message and the default timeout is still used. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c index 8e6dfe76f9c9..4ddb4ea2e4a3 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ #define WDT_A370_RATIO (1 << WDT_A370_RATIO_SHIFT) static bool nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT; -static int heartbeat = -1; /* module parameter (seconds) */ +static int heartbeat; /* module parameter (seconds) */ struct orion_watchdog; -- 2.25.1