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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-at91rm9200-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-at91rm9200-wdt.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d4d86cf8f9eb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-at91rm9200-wdt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Atmel AT91RM9200 System Timer Watchdog + +Required properties: +- compatible: must be "atmel,at91sam9260-wdt". + +Example: + watchdog@fffffd00 { + compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-wdt"; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-wdt.txt index 2957ebb5aa71..fcdd48f7dcff 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-wdt.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/atmel-wdt.txt @@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ Required properties: - reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped region. +Optional properties: +- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds. + Example: watchdog@fffffd40 { compatible = "atmel,at91sam9260-wdt"; reg = <0xfffffd40 0x10>; + timeout-sec = <10>; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt index 0b2503ab0a05..5dc8d30061ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt @@ -5,10 +5,15 @@ Required Properties: - Compatibility : "marvell,orion-wdt" - reg : Address of the timer registers +Optional properties: + +- timeout-sec : Contains the watchdog timeout in seconds + Example: wdt@20300 { compatible = "marvell,orion-wdt"; reg = <0x20300 0x28>; + timeout-sec = <10>; status = "okay"; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/pnx4008-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/pnx4008-wdt.txt index 7c7f6887c796..556d06c17c92 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/pnx4008-wdt.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/pnx4008-wdt.txt @@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ Required properties: - reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped region. +Optional properties: +- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds. + Example: watchdog@4003C000 { compatible = "nxp,pnx4008-wdt"; reg = <0x4003C000 0x1000>; + timeout-sec = <10>; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/qca-ar7130-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/qca-ar7130-wdt.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a89e5f85415 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/qca-ar7130-wdt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +* Qualcomm Atheros AR7130 Watchdog Timer (WDT) Controller + +Required properties: +- compatible: must be "qca,ar7130-wdt" +- reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped + region. + +Example: + +wdt@18060008 { + compatible = "qca,ar9330-wdt", "qca,ar7130-wdt"; + reg = <0x18060008 0x8>; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/samsung-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/samsung-wdt.txt index ce0d8e78ed8f..2aa486cc1ff6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/samsung-wdt.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/samsung-wdt.txt @@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ Required properties: - reg : base physical address of the controller and length of memory mapped region. - interrupts : interrupt number to the cpu. + +Optional properties: +- timeout-sec : contains the watchdog timeout in seconds. diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 086638f6c82d..a0438f3957ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ The Linux WatchDog Timer Driver Core kernel API. =============================================== -Last reviewed: 22-May-2012 +Last reviewed: 12-Feb-2013 Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> @@ -212,3 +212,15 @@ driver specific data to and a pointer to the data itself. The watchdog_get_drvdata function allows you to retrieve driver specific data. The argument of this function is the watchdog device where you want to retrieve data from. The function returns the pointer to the driver specific data. + +To initialize the timeout field, the following function can be used: + +extern int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, + unsigned int timeout_parm, struct device *dev); + +The watchdog_init_timeout function allows you to initialize the timeout field +using the module timeout parameter or by retrieving the timeout-sec property from +the device tree (if the module timeout parameter is invalid). Best practice is +to set the default timeout value as timeout value in the watchdog_device and +then use this function to set the user "preferred" timeout value. +This routine returns zero on success and a negative errno code for failure. |