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[v6,7/8] watchdog: max77620: add comment to clarify set_timeout procedure

Message ID 20220223175908.191618-8-luca@lucaceresoli.net
State New
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Series Add MAX77714 PMIC minimal driver (RTC and watchdog only) | expand

Commit Message

Luca Ceresoli Feb. 23, 2022, 5:59 p.m. UTC 
Clarify why we need to ping the watchdog before changing the timeout by
quoting the MAX77714 datasheet.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

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Changes in v6: none

Changes in v5:
 - improve comment to remove misleading ambiguous interpretation
   (Guenter Roeck)

This patch is new in v4. It adds a clarification comment to the max77620
driver taken from v3 patch 7.
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 drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c
index cd321c7e0d59..b76ad6ba0915 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c
@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@  static int max77620_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdt_dev,
 		break;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * "If the value of TWD needs to be changed, clear the system
+	 * watchdog timer first [...], then change the value of TWD."
+	 * (MAX77714 datasheet but applies to MAX77620 too)
+	 */
 	ret = regmap_update_bits(wdt->rmap, wdt->drv_data->reg_cnfg_glbl3,
 				 wdt->drv_data->wdtc_mask, 0x1);
 	if (ret < 0)