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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 55120a055a14..dd8f912c0576 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are: because the watchdog does not necessarily has a 1 second resolution). (Note: the WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT needs to be set in the options field of the watchdog's info structure). + If the watchdog driver does not have to perform any action but setting the + watchdog_device.timeout, this callback can be omitted. + If set_timeout is not provided but, WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT is set, the watchdog + infrastructure updates the timeout value of the watchdog_device internally + to the requested value. * get_timeleft: this routines returns the time that's left before a reset. * restart: this routine restarts the machine. It returns 0 on success or a negative errno code for failure. diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c index ba2ecce4aae6..b5e700186ae0 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c @@ -183,13 +183,20 @@ static unsigned int watchdog_get_status(struct watchdog_device *wdd) static int watchdog_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int timeout) { - if (!wdd->ops->set_timeout || !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT)) + int err = 0; + + if (!(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (watchdog_timeout_invalid(wdd, timeout)) return -EINVAL; - return wdd->ops->set_timeout(wdd, timeout); + if (wdd->ops->set_timeout) + err = wdd->ops->set_timeout(wdd, timeout); + else + wdd->timeout = timeout; + + return err; } /* |