Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-15 Thread Guenter Roeck
Hi Uwe, On 08/14/2015 12:05 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello Guenter, On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:02:43PM -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 wat

Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-14 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello Guenter, On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:02:43PM -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 b

[PATCH v2 4/8] watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional

2015-08-07 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_