[PATCH v2 3/4] dt-bindings: watchdog: da9062: add watchdog timeout mode

[Adam Thomson]

On Guenter Roeck wrote:

> > Document the watchdog timeout mode property. If this property is used
> > the user can select what happens on watchdog timeout. Set this property
> > to 1 to enable SHUTDOWN (the device resets), set it to 0 and the device
> > will go to POWERDOWN on watchdog timeout.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrej Picej <andrej.picej at norik.com>
> > ---
> >   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/da9062-wdt.txt | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/da9062-wdt.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/da9062-wdt.txt
> > index 950e4fba8dbc..e3e6e56cee21 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/da9062-wdt.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/da9062-wdt.txt
> > @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Optional properties:
> >   - dlg,use-sw-pm: Add this property to disable the watchdog during suspend.
> >   	Only use this option if you can't use the watchdog automatic suspend
> >   	function during a suspend (see register CONTROL_B).
> > +- dlg,wdt-sd: Set what happens on watchdog timeout. If this bit is set the
> > +	watchdog timeout triggers SHUTDOWN, if cleared the watchdog triggers
> > +	POWERDOWN. Can be 0 or 1.
> >
> 
> Why does it need a value ? Why not just bool ?

One argument might be that if the property isn't provided then the OTP
configured value can persist without needing a FW change around this DT binding.

My belief though is that the majority of users would have this property set to 0
by default in OTP, so a boolean would be OK I think here to enable watchdog
shutdown.