[PATCH] watchdog: sunxi: fix activation of system reset

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 20 01:26:58 PDT 2015


Hi Francesco,

Your patch looks mostly good, but there's just a few minor things.

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 07:59:39PM +0200, Francesco Lavra wrote:
> Commit f2147de3 ("watchdog: sunxi: support parameterized compatible

The commit ID should have at least 12 chars to avoid future ID
collisions (which already start to happen)

> strings") introduced a regression in sunxi_wdt_start(), by which
> the system reset function of the watchdog is not enabled upon
> starting the watchdog. Fix it.

Having a description of what that actually means for the end-user (I
guess that it won't reset the system when the watchdog expires) would
be nice.

> Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <francescolavra.fl at gmail.com>

Could you also CC stable, and add a Fixes: tag please?

Thanks,
Maxime

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