[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v3 1/9] ppc4xx: remove booke-wdt watchdog package

Christian Lamparter chunkeey at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 22 13:38:38 PDT 2016


On Friday, July 22, 2016 12:00:53 PM CEST Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 07/20/2016 06:44 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > This patch gets rid of the booke watchdog kmod package.
> > Instead the affected boards will enable it in their
> > kernel configs.
> 
> You are not really explaining why this is better, is booke-wdt required
> for e.g: system reboot on some platforms?
> 
I made this change because of this post from Felix:
<http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-July/001879.html>

There's no good reason for APM821xx (and probably all other ppc platforms)
to have it as a separate module as it's part of the platform. Most 
other prominent archs (ar71xx, lantiq, ramips, mvebu, ...) have enabled
their platform watchdog in the default kernel configuration as well.

Do you want it back? If so, what's your good reason behind it?

Regards,
Christian



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