linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/8] watchdog: davinci: change driver to use WDT core

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:31:58 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	"ivan.khoronzhuk" <ivan.khoronzhuk@...com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>, wim@...ana.be,
	nsekhar@...com, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
CC:	grant.likely@...aro.org, rob.herring@...xeda.com,
	pawel.moll@....com, mark.rutland@....com, swarren@...dotorg.org,
	galak@...nel.crashing.org, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/8] watchdog: davinci: change driver to use WDT
 core

On 11/18/2013 03:47 AM, ivan.khoronzhuk wrote:

>>>    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>> -MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR);
>>>    MODULE_ALIAS("platform:watchdog");
>>>
>> You might want to rename the platform driver to something like
>> davinci-wdt and change the MODULE_ALIAS
>> accordingly.
>>
>
> Yes, it could be changed but not in this patch.
>
Seems to me this would be the perfect time to change it, as you switch to use
the watchdog core which permits more than one active watchdog in the system.

Guenter

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