[PATCH] watchdog: add support for the Synopsys DesignWare WDT

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi Jamie,

> +config DW_WATCHDOG
> +	tristate "Synopsys DesignWare watchdog"
> +        select WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT

I overlooked something: If your watchdog driver cannot be stopped once it's started,
then it's best to add a comment about that in your code. Selecting the WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
feauture (which is overall for all drivers) is not the way to do it properly.
What you should do is add a timer that ticks the watchdog if /dev/watchdog is closed.
Examples for this functionality can be found in at91sam9_wdt.c, pika_wdt.c, ...

Sorry,
Wim.