linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: at91: rm9200 add system timer resources to watchdog

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Message-ID: <3833756.aJxOhkuG91@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:36:55 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: at91: rm9200 add system timer resources to watchdog

On Friday 31 October 2014 21:57:56 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 31/10/2014 at 21:50:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > On Friday 31 October 2014 21:45:58 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > To be able to make the watchdog driver independent from the mach/ includes, pass
> > > the system timer register space as a resource.
> > > 
> > > Also, change the name to avoid conflicting with the at91sam9 watchdog driver.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
> > > 
> > 
> > Doing this change as a separate patch breaks bisection because now the device
> > name no longer matches untile the other patch is applied too.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I was not sure how important that was as there is no user of the
> watchdog in the kernel. My thinking was that both patch can then go
> through different trees.
> 
> I can definitely squash them.

AFAICT, arch/arm/configs/at91rm9200_defconfig enables the device and it
gets registered through at91_add_standard_devices. You definitely have
my Ack to merge the mach-at91 patch through the watchdog tree.

	Arnd
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