Re: [PATCH] watchdog: tegra: Stop watchdog first if restarting

[Guenter Roeck]

On 11/09/2015 04:11 PM, Andrew Chew wrote:
> If we need to restart the watchdog due to someone changing the timeout
> interval, stop the watchdog before restarting it.  Otherwise, the new
> timeout doesn't seem to take.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Chew <achew@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Some feedback from the maintainers would be helpful, though,
especially if there is some other means to change the timeout
without stopping the watchdog.

Guenter

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c
> index 7f97cdd..9ec5760 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c
> @@ -140,8 +140,10 @@ static int tegra_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
>   {
>   	wdd->timeout = timeout;
>
> -	if (watchdog_active(wdd))
> +	if (watchdog_active(wdd)) {
> +		tegra_wdt_stop(wdd);
>   		return tegra_wdt_start(wdd);
> +	}
>
>   	return 0;
>   }

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