linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: add driver for Ricoh RN5T618 watchdog

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Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:51:20 +0200
From:	Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@...il.com>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: add driver for Ricoh RN5T618 watchdog

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> I'm not sure why a) this patch was sent to me in the first place and
> b) why anyone would think this should go in through MFD?
> 

Hi Lee,

from a previous mail [1] I (wrongly) assumed that this was going
through the MFD tree. If this is not the case, Wim, can you pick the
patch?

Beniamino

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/4/124

> > You have my Acked-by or Signbed-off-by on this one.
> > I believe this goes via the mfd tree.
> 
> Wim,
> 
> When you Ack something, you should add your full Acked-by string.
> 
> Patches should only be Signed-off(-by) when you are part of the
> distribution path i.e. when you send patches to another Maintainer
> and/or Linus.
> 
> > > This adds a driver for the watchdog timer available in Ricoh RN5T618
> > > PMIC. The device supports a programmable expiration time of 1, 8, 32
> > > or 128 seconds.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@...il.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > this is the third version of Ricoh RN5T618 watchdog driver. The other
> > > patches of the original series adding MFD and regulator support have
> > > already been merged.
> > > 
> > > Changes since v2 (http://lwn.net/Articles/610000/ ):
> > >   - rename 'heartbeat' module parameter to 'timeout'
> > >   - change parameter type to uint
> > > 
> > > Changes since v1:
> > >   - initialized heartbeat parameter to 0 instead of -1
> > >   - simplified code path in set_timeout function
> > >   - fixed module unloading
> > >   - made 'time' unsigned in struct rn5t618_wdt_map
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