[PATCH] watchdog: qcom: stop watchdog by default

Stefan Roese stefan.roese at mailbox.org
Wed Jan 21 10:17:38 CET 2026


On 1/21/26 01:36, Casey Connolly wrote:
> Prevent the Qualcomm watchdog from autostarting and ensure it's stopped
> when the driver probed. In some cases the watchdog is left running by
> a previous bootloader stage. Disable autostart so it isn't left running
> when we boot into the OS, this behaviour can be changed by enabling
> autostart in the board defconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Casey Connolly <casey.connolly at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <stefan.roese at mailbox.org>

Thanks,
Stefan

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/Kconfig    | 1 +
>   drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> index 35ae7d106b1a..416d29d256a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ config WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART
>   	bool "Automatically start watchdog timer"
>   	depends on WDT
>   	default n if ARCH_SUNXI
>   	default n if ARCH_STM32MP
> +	default n if ARCH_SNAPDRAGON
>   	default y
>   	help
>   	  Automatically start watchdog timer and start servicing it during
>   	  init phase. Enabled by default. Disable this option if you want
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> index e4ebb1f31d4b..a8d7e7a79508 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct udevice *dev)
>   		return rate < 0 ? (int)rate : -EINVAL;
>   
>   	wdt->clk_rate = (ulong)rate;
>   
> -	return 0;
> +	return qcom_wdt_stop(dev);
>   }
>   
>   static const struct wdt_ops qcom_wdt_ops = {
>   	.start = qcom_wdt_start,



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