Re: [PATCH 2/5] dt-bindings: watchdog: gpio: Describe minimum heartbeat intervals

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 21:39:53 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 03:16:14PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Some GPIO-controlled watchdogs require a minimum interval between input
> transitions. Add an optional hw-min-interval-ms property to describe this
> constraint, allowing the watchdog core to defer early keepalives.
>
> Also remove the 16-bit limit on hw_margin_ms. The generic GPIO driver has
> no hardware register imposing this limit, and its heartbeat interval is
> stored in an unsigned int. The MTX-1 watchdog has a nominal 100-second
> hardware timeout and requires at least 1.6 seconds between transitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter