[PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: watchdog: aspeed: Document aspeed,pre-timeout-irq-us

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Oct 25 05:44:23 AEDT 2022


On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:15:59AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> Document this new property for the pre-timeout interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> index a8197632d6d2..81d2c35ca7e3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> @@ -40,12 +40,17 @@ Optional properties:
>  			specified no external signal is sent.
>   - aspeed,ext-pulse-duration: External signal pulse duration in microseconds
>  
> -Optional properties for AST2500-compatible watchdogs:
> +Optional properties for AST2500 and AST2600 compatible watchdogs:
>   - aspeed,ext-push-pull: If aspeed,external-signal is present, set the pin's
>  			 drive type to push-pull. The default is open-drain.
>   - aspeed,ext-active-high: If aspeed,external-signal is present and and the pin
>  			   is configured as push-pull, then set the pulse
>  			   polarity to active-high. The default is active-low.
> + - aspeed,pre-timeout-irq-us: If aspeed,pre-timeout-irq-us is non-zero, the
> +			      pre-timeout interrupt will be enabled for the
> +			      watchdog. The interrupt will fire the specified
> +			      number of microseconds before the watchdog expires
> +			      and trigger a kernel panic.

A pre-timeout interrupt is fairly common. Come up with a common property 
please. You'll need to be clear if the time is from wdog restart or time 
before final timeout. 

Rob


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