Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 5/5] Watchdog: ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog half timeout panic support | From | Timur Tabi <> | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:26:10 -0600 |
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Fu Wei wrote: > Actually, > the SBSA watchdog driver should support only half-timeout for panic > the user cannot configure the length of "panic time", He can only > enable it, and it is automatically set to 1/2 timeout. > > we don't need pre-timeout here. > > Hope I understand you correctly:-) sorry for your confusion > >> > >> >So when pre-timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or whatever >> >it's supposed to do. > Actually, > So when 1/2 timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or > whatever it's supposed to do. >
I understand all that. What I'm saying is that, in the future, when pre-timeout support is added to the watchdog layer, I think it makes sense to modify this driver to use pre-timeout support.
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