[PATCH v3 2/7] watchdog: sunxi: allow setting timeout in devicetree

Marcus Folkesson marcus.folkesson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 12:08:42 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>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt | 4 ++++
 drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c                             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
index 62dd5baad70e..49900e72f6b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ Required properties:
                "allwinner,sun6i-a31-wdt"
 - reg : Specifies base physical address and size of the registers.
 
+Optional properties:
+- timeout-sec : Contains the watchdog timeout in seconds
+
 Example:
 
 wdt: watchdog at 1c20c90 {
 	compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-wdt";
 	reg = <0x01c20c90 0x10>;
+	timeout-sec = <10>;
 };
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
index 9728fa32c357..55f166bec0ca 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #define DRV_VERSION		"1.0"
 
 static bool nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT;
-static unsigned int timeout = WDT_MAX_TIMEOUT;
+static unsigned int timeout;
 
 /*
  * This structure stores the register offsets for different variants
-- 
2.15.1




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