Re: [PATCH] watchdog: i6300esb: do not stop an already running watchdog

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 16:57:09 EST


On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 01:15:33PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> esb_initdevice() unconditionally disabled the WDT, stopping a
> watchdog that firmware had left running instead of taking over its
> care. Detect the enable bit in the lock register, set
> WDOG_HW_RUNNING like the other watchdog drivers do, and simply
> reset the timeout to the configured value.
>
> Assisted-by: opencode:Qwen3.8-27B
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter