linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add watchdog driver for Intel TunnelCreek

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Message-Id: <201106201051.49055.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:51:48 +0200
From:	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add watchdog driver for Intel TunnelCreek

On Friday 17 June 2011 23:01:15 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:05:50 +0200, Alexander Stein said:
> > +config INTEL_TUNNELCREEK_WATCHDOG
> > +	tristate "Intel TunnelCreek watchdog"
> > +	depends on WATCHDOG && PCI && X86
> > +	select MFD_CORE
> > +	select LPC_SCH
> > +	---help---
> > +	  Hardware driver for the watchdog timer built into the Intel
> > +	  Tunnel Creek processor.
> 
> Please add part names here so we don't have to guess/remember what the
> now-retired code name for a processor was.  Just because the guy who wrote
> the driver knows what the development name was doesn't mean that the poor
> guy saying 'make oldconfig' knows whether this is a driver he cares about.
> 
> http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/15/intel-retires-tunnel-creek-codename-debu
> ts-e600-series-atom-sys/

Thanks for the hint.
Would you also recommend to rename the driver module name? Currently it is 
intel_tunnelcreek_watchdog, so it may be called intel_e6xx_watchdog.

Regards,
Alexander
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