linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] watchdog: Add new arm_smc

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:06:21 -0700
From:   Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
To:     Evan Benn <evanbenn@...omium.org>
Cc:     Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Xingyu Chen <xingyu.chen@...ogic.com>,
        Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
        Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
        Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
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        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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        LINUX-WATCHDOG <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] watchdog: Add new arm_smc_wdt watchdog driver

> I think I have misunderstood the device tree json-schema spec.
> My intention was for the device tree to fill in a default value in the dtb for
> arm,smc-id if it was omitted in the dts. But now I see that does not seem to
> happen, I cannot really find any documentation of `default`, so I will just put
> a documentation string in instead and force the default in the driver.

The bindings in Documentation/device-tree are just for informational
purposes, they do not have any direct effect on anything. If you want
there to be a default, you'll have to write the kernel code to fill it
in.