[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: at91: add at91sam9_wdt driver to at91sam9260

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Thu Sep 20 06:07:24 EDT 2012


On 09:52 Thu 20 Sep     , Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> Hi Jean-Christophe,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> wrote:
> > On 13:57 Wed 19 Sep     , Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> >> Tested on an at91sam9260 board (evk-pro3)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9260.dtsi | 6 ++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9260.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9260.dtsi
> >> index 66389c1..680b1c8 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9260.dtsi
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9260.dtsi
> >> @@ -233,6 +233,12 @@
> >>                                       trigger-external;
> >>                               };
> >>                       };
> >> +
> >> +                     watchdog at fffffd40 {
> > disable dy default
> 
> All the others watchdog drivers in arch/arm/boot/dts/* are enabled by default.
> IMHO the watchdog driver it's like the "rtstc" and "shdwc" driver,
> they are safe to be enabled by default.
> I'm missing something?
no the other watchdog will not reset if not managed

this one will

so I'm not confortable by enabling it by default

Best Regards,
J.



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