Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Fu Wei]

Hi Timur

On 25 May 2015 at 00:44, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>> The current watchdog API suggests that the pretimeout "allows Linux
>> to record useful information (like panic information and kernel
>> coredumps) before it resets". The call to panic() would be the
>> means to make this happen.
>
>
> Now that I think about it, that does make sense.
>
> However, if a pre-timeout is not set, then the driver should never call
> panic().  That means that the interrupt handler should only be registered if
> sbsa_gwdt_set_pretimeout() is called.

I don't know why you want to do this tricky way.  you can always
register the interrupt handler,
if pre-timeout is 0, system will just trigger WS1 right after WS0


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