Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] watchdog: Add a new flag WDIOF_STOP_MAYSLEEP

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 10:10:24AM +0000, George Cherian wrote:
> A new option flag is added to watchdog_info. This helps the watchdog
> core to check whether stop functions would sleep or not.
> The option flags of individual drivers are also updated accordingly.

...

>  	.options =	WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT |
>  			WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE |
> -			WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING,
> +			WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING |
> +			WDIOF_STOP_MAYSLEEP,

You may heavily reduce this change if you squeeze the new option just before
the last one. Currently it's a lot of unneeded churn that makes review a bit
harder (each needs to be carefully checked for the correctness).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko