[U-Boot] nand commands missing wtchdog reset

[Scott Wood]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:16:59 -0600
Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:05:55 +0100
> Jaap de Jong <jaap.dejong at nedap.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > On my board (at91sam9263ek) I have enabled the watchdog.
> > It will reset the processor after about 16 seconds.
> > It looks like it is working but if I'm writing a large file into nand it 
> > seems that the watchdog is not reset and finally my processor resets.
> > I've patched it, but I'm not sure if it is the right way to do it this 
> > way...
> 
> So far we've been putting the watchdog resets in higher-level
> functions.  It looks like the block-skipping versions have them, but
> the non-block-skipping versions don't (and the former will call the
> latter if it doesn't see any bad blocks).
> 
> So I think this should go in nand_read() and nand_write().  If things
> hang up inside the low-level wait that should trigger the watchdog.

Oh, and all patches require a sign-off, and the text above the patch
should be what is intended to go in the git changelog, with any
additional comments/greetings/etc below a "---" line.

See http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches
and also the Developer's Certificate of Origin in
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=689e2371095cc5dfea9927120009341f369159aa;hb=HEAD

-Scott