Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: omap_wdt: Add 'early_disable' module parameter

From: Rostislav Lisovy
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 11:22:56 EST


Hello Guenter;
Thanks for the review.

On Ãt, 2014-09-16 at 08:49 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> How do you know that the watchdog was already running ?
> Seems to me you are just making an assumption that it is running
> without really knowing for sure.

You are definitely right, however the OMAP Watchdog seems to be such a
sophisticated piece of hardware that there is no possible way how to
determine if it is running or not (sampling timer counter twice and
comparing both values is they differ is stupid).

Best regards;
Rostislav

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