Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: at91sam9: keep watchdog running in idle mode

From: [email-masked] (Alexandre Belloni)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:01:12 +0200

Hi Sylvain,

On 06/10/2015 at 22:28:45 +0200, Sylvain Rochet wrote :
> Since turning on idle-halt in commit 5161b31dc39a (watchdog:
> at91sam9_wdt: better watchdog support"), SoCs compatible with
> at91sam9260-wdt not using a device tree no longer reboot if the watchdog
> times out while the CPU is in idle state. Removing the
> AT91_WDT_WDIDLEHLT flag that was set by default fixes this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rochet <[email-masked]>
> Fixes: 5161b31dc39a ("watchdog: at91sam9_wdt: better watchdog support")
> Cc: <[email-masked]> # 3.14+

Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <[email-masked]>

However, we don't really care about that for kernels after 3.18 as no
users are using pdata anymore.
I think you could send a follow-up patch removing pdata support
completely.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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