Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] watchdog: qcom: add support to get the bootstatus from IMEM

[Kathiravan Thirumoorthy]

On 2/27/2026 1:12 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >   -    if (readl(wdt_addr(wdt, WDT_STS)) & 1)
> > -        wdt->wdd.bootstatus = WDIOF_CARDRESET;
> > +    ret = qcom_wdt_get_bootstatus(dev, wdt, data->wdt_reason_val);
> > +    if (ret)
> > +        return ret;
>
> Why is reporting the boot status so important that the failure to read it
> results in refusing to instantiate the driver ? That warrants a detailed
> explanation, even more so since it is not backward compatible.


Ack. Let me just log the error message and continue the probe.


> Guenter