Re: [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: rti: tweak min_hw_heartbeat_ms to match initial allowed window

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/30/20 10:50 PM, Tero Kristo wrote:
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> Hardware supports changing the timeout value, however it only updates this during the next window (preload values are picked once user pings the watchdog.)
> 
The current driver doesn't support or use that, though, since the start
function is only called once to start the watchdog, and not at all if
the watchdog is already running. So, if the bootloader sets the timeout
to X, and the user sets a timeout of, say, X * 4, userspace will never
ping the watchdog often enough. The driver will have to address that
to support already-running watchdogs.

Thanks,
Guenter