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

[Florian Fainelli]

On 07/22/2016 01:38 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> 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?

You just need to indicate why this is desirable, that's all I was asking
for, anyway, not critical.
-- 
Florian