Re: [Linux-stm32] [PATCH v2 1/1] drivers: watchdog: stm32_iwdg: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING at probe

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hello Christophe,

On 11/22/19 9:24 AM, Christophe Roullier wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * In case of CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HANDLE_BOOT_ENABLED is set
> +	 * (Means U-Boot/bootloaders leaves the watchdog running)
> +	 * When we get here we should make a decision to prevent
> +	 * any side effects before user space daemon will take care of it.
> +	 * The best option, taking into consideration that there is no
> +	 * way to read values back from hardware, is to enforce watchdog
> +	 * being run with deterministic values.

What about the "ONF: Watchdog enable status bit" in the IWDG_SR register?

Cheers
Ahmad

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