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Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:10:53 +0000
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Andrew Chew <achew@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: tegra: add nvidia,wdt-timer-id optional
 property

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:46:51PM +0000, Andrew Chew wrote:
> This optional property can be used to specify which timers are to be used
> for hardware watchdog timeouts (via a tegra wdt driver).

Is there any reason that a particular timer should be used?

This shouldn't even mention the driver, as the binding should describe
the HW, not how it's used by Linux at the moment.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Chew <achew@...dia.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra30-timer.txt | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra30-timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra30-timer.txt
> index b5082a1..e87fa70 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra30-timer.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra30-timer.txt
> @@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ Required properties:
>  - clocks : Must contain one entry, for the module clock.
>    See ../clocks/clock-bindings.txt for details.
>  
> +Optional properties:
> +
> +- nvidia,wdt-timer-id: A list of timer IDs to be used for watchdogs.
> +    Watchdog 0 will be assigned to the first timer listed, watchdog 1 will
> +    be assigned to the second timer listed, etc. up to the number of watchdogs
> +    available.

This sounds like a description of what software should do. Is there any
reason this order is important?

Also, it feels odd for the proerty name to be singular given it's a
list...

Thanks,
Mark.
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