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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c index 45e4d02221b5..72c108a12c19 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c @@ -147,8 +147,21 @@ static int mid_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return ret; } - /* Make sure the watchdog is not running */ - wdt_stop(wdt_dev); + /* + * The firmware followed by U-Boot leaves the watchdog running + * with the default threshold which may vary. When we get here + * we should make a decision to prevent any side effects before + * user space daemon will take care of it. The best option, + * taking into consideration that there is no way to read values + * back from hardware, is to enforce watchdog being run with + * deterministic values. + */ + ret = wdt_start(wdt_dev); + if (ret) + return ret; + + /* Make sure the watchdog is serviced */ + set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdt_dev->status); ret = devm_watchdog_register_device(&pdev->dev, wdt_dev); if (ret) { |