linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Add Congatec CGEB watchdog driver

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Message-ID: <20130403170630.GZ1906@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2013 19:06:30 +0200
From:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Add Congatec CGEB watchdog driver

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:30:00AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 05:09:52PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
> > > 
> > > On a side note, if the driver supports devicetree, it might make sense to call
> > > watchdog_init_timeout, since it initializes the timeout from devicetree data.
> > 
> > The driver does not support devicetree.
> > 
> I should have said "the system". Calling watchdog_init_timeout is the only thing
> a watchdog driver has to do to support devicetree.

The system does not use devicetrees. I'm very familiar with devicetrees
on ARM, but I have never seen a x86 system with devicetree support
(although I know they exist)

Sascha

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