[PATCH v7 1/6] watchdog: core: dt: add support for the timeout-sec dt property

@@ -212,3 +212,13 @@ driver specific data to and a pointer to the data itself.
 The watchdog_get_drvdata function allows you to retrieve driver specific data.
 The argument of this function is the watchdog device where you want to retrieve
 data from. The function returns the pointer to the driver specific data.
+
+To initialize the timeout field use the following function:
+
+extern void watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+                                  unsigned int parm_timeout,
+                                  struct device_node *node);
+
+The watchdog_init_timeout function allows you to initialize the timeout field
+using the module timeout parameter or retrieving the timeout-sec property from
+the device tree.

@@ -36,12 +36,49 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>		/* For __init/__exit/... */
 #include <linux/idr.h>		/* For ida_* macros */
 #include <linux/err.h>		/* For IS_ERR macros */
+#include <linux/of.h>		/* For of_get_timeout_sec */
 
 #include "watchdog_core.h"	/* For watchdog_dev_register/... */
 
 static DEFINE_IDA(watchdog_ida);
 static struct class *watchdog_class;
 
+static bool watchdog_is_valid_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+				      unsigned int t)
+
+{
+	if (wdd->min_timeout < wdd->max_timeout)
+		return (wdd->min_timeout <= t) && (t <= wdd->max_timeout);
+	else
+		return (t > 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * watchdog_init_timeout() - initialize the timeout field
+ * @parm: timeout module parameter, it takes precedence over the
+ *        timeout-sec property.
+ * @node: Retrieve the timeout-sec property only if the parm_timeout
+ *        is out of bounds.
+ */
+void watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int parm,
+			   struct device_node *node)
+{
+	unsigned int t = 0;
+
+	if (watchdog_is_valid_timeout(wdd, parm)) {
+		wdd->timeout = parm;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* try to get the timeout_sec property */
+	if (!node)
+		return;
+	of_property_read_u32(node, "timeout-sec", &t);
+	if (watchdog_is_valid_timeout(wdd, t))
+		wdd->timeout = t;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_init_timeout);
+
 /**
  * watchdog_register_device() - register a watchdog device
  * @wdd: watchdog device

@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ static inline void *watchdog_get_drvdata(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 }
 
 /* drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c */
+extern void watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+				  unsigned int parm_timeout,
+				  struct device_node *node);
 extern int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *);
 extern void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *);