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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/7] Watchdog: introduce "pretimeout" into framework
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Hi Guenter.

Sorry for my poor English .
let me explain this :

On 22 May 2015 at 21:23, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 03:46 AM, Fu Wei wrote:
>>
>> Hi Timo,
>>
> [ ... ]
>
>> So I am still trying to improve pretimeout support :-)
>
>
> Is there anything still missing from it ?
>
>> If I can make pretimeout merged, may be you can try pretimeout to
>> implement early_timeout_sec function?
>
>
> Not sure how one would or even could do that.
>
> Do you mean "implement early_pretimeout_sec", by any chance ?

I mean: using pretimeout to implement the function you want, instead
of early_pretimeout_sec

Hope I say the right word this time :-)

>
>> It is up to the maintainers, I will try my best.
>>
>
> Please don't make the pretimeout concept more complicated than necessary.
>
> The smaller the patch, the more likely it is to get accepted.
> The more you change, the more difficult it is for the maintainer to,
> for example, back-port later bug fixes into earlier kernel releases
> when needed. This is why it is, for example, better to keep the
> existing watchdog_init_timeout() function instead of just replacing
> it with watchdog_init_timeouts().
>
> Try to put yourself into the maintainer's perspective: If you were
> the maintainer, would you rather accept a patch or patch set which
> maintains the existing API and doesn't require any changes to existing
> drivers, or would you accept one that changes, say, some function
> or variable names and will require manual back-ports later on if
> there is a bug fix ? Would you rather accept a patch that adds 50 lines
> of code, or one that changes another 100+ lines and rearranges everything
> along the line ?
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>



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Best regards,

Fu Wei
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