Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Uwe,

On 08/14/2015 12:05 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Guenter,
>
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:02:43PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > For some watchdogs, the hardware timeout is fixed, and the
> > watchdog driver depends on the watchdog core to handle the
> > actual timeout. In this situation, the watchdog driver might
> > only set the 'timeout' variable but do nothing else.
> > This can as well be handled by the infrastructure, so make
> > the set_timeout callback optional. If WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT is
> > configured but the .set_timeout callback is not available,
> > update the timeout variable in the infrastructure code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
Guenter


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