On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 15:43 +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Jeffery <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Probing at device_initcall time lead to perverse cases where the
> > watchdog was probed after, say, I2C devices, which then leaves a
> > potentially running watchdog at the mercy of I2C device behaviour and
> > bus conditions.
> > 
> > Load the watchdog driver early to ensure that the kernel is patting it
> > well before initialising peripherals.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <[email protected]>
> 
> I agree that we need to make sure the watchdog driver is loaded
> earlier. I think this is the correct method, but I'll defer to Guenter
> on this one.

Just following up on Joel's comments: Is there anything else I need to
address?

Cheers,

Andrew

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Reply via email to