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From: sylvain.rochet@finsecur•com (Sylvain Rochet)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: at91sam9: watchdog: period
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:22:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151007092258.GA15119@gradator.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151006180342.GA13434@gradator.net>

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:03:43PM +0200, Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> 
> I wonder if we should substract from the watchdog_ops->set_timeout() 
> new_timeout argument value the previously set hardware timeout period, 
> this way we would have a "60 - 16 + 12~16" instead of a "60 + 12~16" 
> watchdog timeout. If someone agree I will propose a patch to do that.

A night of thinking later, it may sounds appealing but this is a stupid 
idea. We have an overlap hard to deal with if user chooses a ping time 
close to the timeout (e.g.: 60s timeout, 55s ping time), it sounds 
stupid to do so but we can't prevent nor check that. So let's keep it 
simple.

Sylvain

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15  7:16 at91sam9: watchdog: period Jiří Prchal
2015-05-15 13:59 ` Bryan Evenson
2015-05-15 14:19   ` Nicolas Ferre
2015-05-18  6:25     ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-15 15:25 ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-18  6:27   ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-18  7:27     ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-18  8:17       ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-19  3:07         ` Yang, Wenyou
2015-05-19  7:14           ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-19  9:01             ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-19  9:14               ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-19  9:52                 ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-19 10:04                   ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-20 12:39                     ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-21 12:41                     ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-27  7:11                       ` Jiří Prchal
2015-05-19  7:12     ` Boris Brezillon
2015-05-19  9:00       ` Jiří Prchal
2015-10-06 13:07 ` Jiří Prchal
2015-10-06 18:03 ` Sylvain Rochet
2015-10-07  7:16   ` Jiří Prchal
2015-10-07  9:22   ` Sylvain Rochet [this message]

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