Re: [PATCH 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-04 Thread Guenter Roeck
Hi Uwe, On 08/04/2015 08:38 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 07:13:30PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: For some watchdogs, the hardware timeout is fixed, and the watchdog driver depends on the watchdog core to handle the actual timeout. In this situation, the watchdog dr

Re: [PATCH 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-04 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 07:13:30PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > For some watchdogs, the hardware timeout is fixed, and the > watchdog driver depends on the watchdog core to handle the > actual timeout. In this situation, the watchdog driver might > only set the 'timeout' variable but do no

[PATCH 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-03 Thread Guenter Roeck
For some watchdogs, the hardware timeout is fixed, and the watchdog driver depends on the watchdog core to handle the actual timeout. In this situation, the watchdog driver might only set the 'timeout' variable but do nothing else. This can as well be handled by the infrastructure, so make the set_