[PATCH 5/7] watchdog: mtk: allow setting timeout in devicetree

Marcus Folkesson marcus.folkesson at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 11:27:22 PST 2018


watchdog_init_timeout() will allways pick timeout_param since it
defaults to a valid timeout.

By following best practice described in
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt, it also
let us to set timout-sec property in devicetree.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/mtk-wdt.txt | 4 ++++
 drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c                             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/mtk-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/mtk-wdt.txt
index 5b38a30e608c..859dee167b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/mtk-wdt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/mtk-wdt.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@ Required properties:
 
 - reg : Specifies base physical address and size of the registers.
 
+Optional properties:
+- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds.
+
 Example:
 
 wdt: watchdog at 10000000 {
 	compatible = "mediatek,mt6589-wdt";
 	reg = <0x10000000 0x18>;
+	timeout-sec = <10>;
 };
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c
index 7ed417a765c7..fcdc10ec28a3 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/mtk_wdt.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 #define DRV_VERSION		"1.0"
 
 static bool nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT;
-static unsigned int timeout = WDT_MAX_TIMEOUT;
+static unsigned int timeout;
 
 struct mtk_wdt_dev {
 	struct watchdog_device wdt_dev;
-- 
2.15.1




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