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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/watchdog.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/watchdog.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h index d74a0e907b9e..027b1f43f12d 100644 --- a/include/linux/watchdog.h +++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ struct watchdog_device; * @stop: The routine for stopping the watchdog device. * @ping: The routine that sends a keepalive ping to the watchdog device. * @status: The routine that shows the status of the watchdog device. - * @set_timeout:The routine for setting the watchdog devices timeout value. - * @get_timeleft:The routine that get's the time that's left before a reset. + * @set_timeout:The routine for setting the watchdog devices timeout value (in seconds). + * @get_timeleft:The routine that gets the time left before a reset (in seconds). * @ref: The ref operation for dyn. allocated watchdog_device structs * @unref: The unref operation for dyn. allocated watchdog_device structs * @ioctl: The routines that handles extra ioctl calls. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct watchdog_device; * The watchdog_ops structure contains a list of low-level operations * that control a watchdog device. It also contains the module that owns * these operations. The start and stop function are mandatory, all other - * functions are optonal. + * functions are optional. */ struct watchdog_ops { struct module *owner; @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ struct watchdog_ops { * @info: Pointer to a watchdog_info structure. * @ops: Pointer to the list of watchdog operations. * @bootstatus: Status of the watchdog device at boot. - * @timeout: The watchdog devices timeout value. - * @min_timeout:The watchdog devices minimum timeout value. - * @max_timeout:The watchdog devices maximum timeout value. + * @timeout: The watchdog devices timeout value (in seconds). + * @min_timeout:The watchdog devices minimum timeout value (in seconds). + * @max_timeout:The watchdog devices maximum timeout value (in seconds). * @driver-data:Pointer to the drivers private data. * @lock: Lock for watchdog core internal use only. * @status: Field that contains the devices internal status bits. @@ -119,8 +119,15 @@ static inline void watchdog_set_nowayout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, bool noway /* Use the following function to check if a timeout value is invalid */ static inline bool watchdog_timeout_invalid(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int t) { - return ((wdd->max_timeout != 0) && - (t < wdd->min_timeout || t > wdd->max_timeout)); + /* + * The timeout is invalid if + * - the requested value is smaller than the configured minimum timeout, + * or + * - a maximum timeout is configured, and the requested value is larger + * than the maximum timeout. + */ + return t < wdd->min_timeout || + (wdd->max_timeout && t > wdd->max_timeout); } /* Use the following functions to manipulate watchdog driver specific data */ |