Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Timur Tabi]

Guenter Roeck wrote:

> The current watchdog API suggests that the pretimeout "allows Linux
> to record useful information (like panic information and kernel
> coredumps) before it resets". The call to panic() would be the
> means to make this happen.

Now that I think about it, that does make sense.

However, if a pre-timeout is not set, then the driver should never call 
panic().  That means that the interrupt handler should only be 
registered if sbsa_gwdt_set_pretimeout() is called.

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