[PATCH v2 1/4] watchdog: aspeed: Retain watchdog enabled state
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Wed Sep 20 16:07:13 AEST 2017
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> An unintended post-condition of probe() is that the watchdog is
> disabled. This behaviour was introduced by an unnecessary write to the
> control register to configure the hardware based on the devicetree. The
> write is unnecessary because the cached control value that is
> manipulated by the code parsing the devicetree is eventually written by
> aspeed_wdt_enable(), which is when we care how the control register
> should be configured.
>
> Remove the write to restore expected behaviour.
>
> Fixes: b7f0b8ad25f3 ("drivers/watchdog: ASPEED reference dev tree properties for config")
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
Thanks,
Joel
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