Re: [PATCH 4/6] Watchdog: introdouce "pretimeout" into framework

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 18 May 2015 10:23:30 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > 
> > integrate watchdog_init_pretimeout and watchdog_init_timeout will be a
> > little hard,
> > we may need to change this API to :
> > 
> > watchdog_init_timeouts(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int timeout_parm,
> >                              unsigned int pretimeout_parm, struct device *dev)
> > 
> > then we need to update all the watchdog drivers which use this API,
> > maybe we can do this in a individual patchset, after this pretimeout
> > patch is merged.
> > 
> > Is that OK  ?   any thought?
> > 
> That is what I would recommend.
> 

The API change is fine, but I don't think you need to change all drivers.

Just add a small wrapper function in the header file doing the conversion:

static inline int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
                                unsigned int timeout_parm, struct device *dev)
{
	return watchdog_init_timeouts(wdd, timeout_parm, ~0ul, dev);
}

Then you can update the drivers that actually use the pretimeout to
use the new function at some point, and leave all other drivers calling
the wrapper function.

	Arnd
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