[PATCH v4 3/3] watchdog: meson_gxbb_wdt: remove stop_on_reboot

[Guenter Roeck]

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.

Guenter


> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:14 PM Artem Lapkin <email2tema at 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 at 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
>>