Re: [PATCH] watchdog: orion: use 0 for unset heartbeat

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 01:27:15 EST


On 3/12/20 8:13 PM, Chris Packham wrote:
> 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>

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 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;
>
>