Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] watchdog: Add API to trigger reboots

[Felipe Balbi]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:41:29AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Some hardware implements reboot through its watchdog hardware,
> for example by triggering a watchdog timeout. Platform specific
> code starts to spread into watchdog drivers, typically by setting
> pointers to a callback functions which is then called from the
> platform reset handler.
> 
> To simplify code and provide a unified API to trigger reboots by
> watchdog drivers, provide a single API to trigger such reboots
> through the watchdog subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/watchdog.h         |   11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> index cec9b55..4ec6e2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@
>  static DEFINE_IDA(watchdog_ida);
>  static struct class *watchdog_class;
>  
> +static struct watchdog_device *wdd_reboot_dev;
> +
> +void watchdog_do_reboot(enum reboot_mode mode, const char *cmd)
> +{
> +	if (wdd_reboot_dev) {
> +		if (wdd_reboot_dev->ops->reboot)

you can decrease one level of indentation:

	if (wdd_reboot_dev && wdd_reboot_dev->ops->reboot)

also, shouldn't you test if 'ops' is valid too ? In that case:

	if (wdd_reboot_dev && wdd_reboot_dev->ops &&
		wdd_reboot_dev->ops->reboot)

-- 
balbi

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