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From:   Art Nikpal <email2tema@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:27:48 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] watchdog: meson_gxbb_wdt: remove stop_on_reboot
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc:     Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>, wim@linux-watchdog.org,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
        Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
        linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
        "open list:ARM/Amlogic Meson..." <linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Artem Lapkin <art@khadas.com>, Nick Xie <nick@khadas.com>,
        Gouwa Wang <gouwa@khadas.com>
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 11:30 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/21 11:59 PM, Art Nikpal wrote:
> > hi Guenter Roeck
> > why still not merged to upstream ?
> >
>
> I had asked you to provide an updated description, without the "personal
> opinion" part which does not belong into a commit log. The other two
> patches wait for Wim to send them upstream.
>

ok i have send this patch with new description again

> Guenter
>
>
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:14 PM Artem Lapkin <email2tema@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Remove watchdog_stop_on_reboot()
> >>
> >> Meson platform still have some hardware drivers problems for some
> >> configurations which can freeze device on shutdown/reboot stage and i
> >> think better to have reboot warranty by default.
> >>
> >> I feel that it is important to keep the watchdog running during the
> >> reboot sequence, in the event that an abnormal driver freezes the reboot
> >> process.
> >>
> >> This is my personal opinion and I hope the driver authors will agree
> >> with my proposal, or just ignore this commit if not.
> >>
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-watchdog/20210729072308.1908904-1-art@khadas.com/T/#t
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Artem Lapkin <art@khadas.com>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c | 1 -
> >>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> >> index 945f5e65db57..d3c9e2f6e63b 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> >> @@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ static int meson_gxbb_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>
> >>          meson_gxbb_wdt_set_timeout(&data->wdt_dev, data->wdt_dev.timeout);
> >>
> >> -       watchdog_stop_on_reboot(&data->wdt_dev);
> >>          return devm_watchdog_register_device(dev, &data->wdt_dev);
> >>   }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
> >>
>