Re: [PATCH 3/5] watchdog: gpio: Support watchdogs with a minimum heartbeat interval

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 21:42:27 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 03:16:15PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Read the optional hw-min-interval-ms property into min_hw_heartbeat_ms so
> the watchdog core defers keepalives that would toggle the GPIO too soon.
> Reject zero intervals and intervals at or above the hardware margin.
> Devices without the property retain their existing behavior.
>
> Remove the arbitrary 65535 ms upper bound on hw_margin_ms as well. There
> is no register width to constrain this software interval, and the MTX-1
> watchdog needs a larger margin with a 1600 ms minimum ping interval.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter