[PATCH] [v2] watchdog: booke_wdt: clean up status messages

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 16 02:42:42 EST 2011


On Feb 8, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Improve the status messages that are displayed during some operations of the
> PowerPC watchdog timer driver.  When the watchdog is enabled, the timeout is
> displayed as a number of seconds, instead of an obscure "period".  The "period"
> is the position of a bit in a 64-bit timer register.  The higher the value,
> the quicker the watchdog timeout occurs.  Some people chose a high "period"
> value for the timer and get confused as to why the board resets within a
> few seconds.
> 
> Messages displayed during open and close are now debug messages, so that they
> don't clutter the console by default.  Finally, printk() is replaced with the
> pr_xxx() equivalent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c |   19 +++++++++----------
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

applied

- k


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