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Message-ID: <20151125202956.GA10228@rob-hp-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:29:56 -0600
From:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:	Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] watchdog: ts4800: add driver for TS-4800 watchdog

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:25:04PM -0500, Damien Riegel wrote:
> This watchdog is instantiated in a FPGA that is memory mapped. It is
> made of only one register, called the feed register. Writing to this
> register will re-arm the watchdog for a given time (and enable it if it
> was disable). It can be disabled by writing a special value into it.
> 
> It is part of a syscon block, and the watchdog register offset in this
> block varies from board to board. This offset is passed in the syscon
> property after the phandle to the syscon node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@...oirfairelinux.com>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt    |  25 +++
>  drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  10 +
>  drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c                      | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 251 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..388c60f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +Technologic Systems Watchdog
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: must be "technologic,ts4800-wdt"
> +- syscon: phandle / integer array that points to the syscon node which
> +          describes the FPGA's syscon registers.
> +          - phandle to FPGA's syscon
> +          - offset to the watchdog register
> +
> +Optional property:
> +- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +syscon: syscon@...10000 {
> +	compatible = "syscon", "simple-mfd";
> +	reg = <0xb0010000 0x3d>;
> +	bus-width = <16>;
> +
> +	wdt@e {
> +		compatible = "technologic,ts4800-wdt";
> +		syscon = <&syscon 0xe>;

If this is single register only for the watchdog, why do you need 
syscon? You can just use reg.

Rob
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