[PATCH v6 05/19] watchdog: orion: Make sure the watchdog is initially stopped

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Thu Feb 6 12:20:12 EST 2014


Having the watchdog initially fully stopped is important to avoid
any spurious watchdog triggers, in case the registers are not in
its reset state.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c
index 6746033..2dbeee9 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ static int orion_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	orion_wdt.max_timeout = wdt_max_duration;
 	watchdog_init_timeout(&orion_wdt, heartbeat, &pdev->dev);
 
+	/* Let's make sure the watchdog is fully stopped */
+	orion_wdt_stop(&orion_wdt);
+
 	watchdog_set_nowayout(&orion_wdt, nowayout);
 	ret = watchdog_register_device(&orion_wdt);
 	if (ret)
-- 
1.8.1.5




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