Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] watchdog: davinci: change driver to use WDT core

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On 11/27/2013 6:18 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> To reduce code duplicate and increase code readability use WDT core
> code to handle WDT interface.
> 
> Remove io_lock as the WDT core uses mutex to lock each wdt device.
> Remove wdt_state as the WDT core tracks state with its own variable.
> 
> The watchdog_init_timeout() can read timeout value from timeout-sec
> property if the passed value is out of bounds. The heartbeat is
> initialized in next way. If heartbeat is not set thought module
> parameter, try to read it's value from WDT node timeout-sec property.
> If node has no one, use default value.
> 
> The heartbeat is hold in wdd->timeout by WDT core, so use it in
> order to set timeout period.
> 
> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/Kconfig       |    2 +
>  drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c |  147 ++++++++++------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> index 5be6e91..eb8c89d 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> @@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ config IOP_WATCHDOG
>  config DAVINCI_WATCHDOG
>  	tristate "DaVinci watchdog"
>  	depends on ARCH_DAVINCI
> +	select WATCHDOG_CORE
> +	select WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT

Its not clear for change log why NOWAYOUT needs to be forced on all the
time for all users of DaVinci watchdog.

Thanks,
Sekhar