[PATCH v4] watchdog: imx2_wdg: Allow ping on suspend

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Wed Mar 23 06:07:33 PDT 2022


On 3/23/22 04:57, Alistair Francis wrote:
> The i.MX watchdog cannot be disabled by software once it has been
> enabled. This means that it can't be stopped before suspend.
> 
> For systems that enter low power mode this is fine, as the watchdog will
> be automatically stopped by hardware in low power mode. Not all i.MX
> platforms support low power mode in the mainline kernel. For example the
> i.MX7D does not enter low power mode and so will be rebooted 2 minutes
> after entering sleep states.
> 
> This patch introduces a device tree property "fsl,ping-during-suspend"
> that can be used to enable ping on suspend support for these systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair at alistair23.me>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

What is the difference to earlier versions ?

Guenter



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