Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754218AbcLLRrA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:47:00 -0500 Received: from anholt.net ([50.246.234.109]:39526 "EHLO anholt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752488AbcLLRq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:46:58 -0500 From: Eric Anholt To: Rasmus Villemoes , Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Stephen Warren , Lee Jones , Florian Fainelli , Ray Jui , Scott Branden , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com Cc: Rasmus Villemoes , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: bcm2835_wdt: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING bit when appropriate In-Reply-To: <1481536123-9279-1-git-send-email-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> References: <1481536123-9279-1-git-send-email-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.22.2+1~gb0bcfaa (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:46:55 -0800 Message-ID: <87oa0h3ur4.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 36 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Rasmus Villemoes writes: > A bootloader may start the watchdog device before handing control to > the kernel - in that case, we should tell the kernel about it so the > watchdog framework can keep it alive until userspace opens > /dev/watchdog0. I don't believe our current bootloaders (the closed firmware or u-boot) set up the watchdog, but this seems reasonable since they might want to later. Acked-by: Eric Anholt --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE/JuuFDWp9/ZkuCBXtdYpNtH8nugFAlhO4o8ACgkQtdYpNtH8 nuiqcg//Y18nOX1rLbqX8+IO0YT4SUMiYmhnjNR7vZJQHwub5D9uf0MDb9j1dlht pRuSOqcC22N1nhzvOg0Kf2sVjcfJGg2ch9i1ScRZyjd17aWZ011P4hrwgMV1f+og GKOsPdx5VDlzjBzhVb5RarH6yjkWb7p3Jl2axrXXVqg1MosN6SovtT1eBskwRpt0 3GaFVnMV4kaRDAD1q1LTbvrGUL6zurgrE/HEmaxbVwjfmcrK/2vXsKPBBm5GygdJ j3A1gyKE39tIQrYJmiNYO2h1BDFPre8hdyyGF1VpsZi8DFJSedx9lX2OhSbsMS76 OX5J+GijXFUmXRhOWcwIaO7TKNuaJTXEx+5OyzmP7cA3n5TENLciuj3Kn4ZCFzld Ca8wp2FCcOqTkDWeo/nvJAJbBPkcyOHxqbiQl1XwGAZJmLBRl8jbzrdC1IaIAUHE ycMlPmeQBR3AjJvzJDYrejuRwjlpI8ufGhqstKsQhkU/KVr/FDD4FhOd/56ZpgQg IBYzWZOtGMEibvSFJW6rARVg9HOe/ui80ugdq57b2xSxJxXESLrAV0HpIQLgmp5u NOcmjNzhVnqK10v60gRpxUPb0G1cFxQBvrKDiwhuJpJiad8ZEEIJ2Yd9Si1/C32l tOGmapZV6lfddpOsl1cNMpthuCVW73rKoUSm43kvQdRLbxxOcMk= =caI4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--