[PATCH 0/7] Orion watchdog DT changes to support more SoCs

[Jason Cooper]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:41:51AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> As part of my work to add watchdog support to Armada 370/XP SoCs,
> here's some early patches to get early feedback.
> 
> This patchset allows to build the orion_wdt driver in any Orion
> platforms.
> 
> To achieve this it's necessary to remove the need for a mach-specific,
> which in turn is done by splitting the single memory resource into
> three memory resources: timer control, watchdog counter and RSTOUT registers;
> and handling each of this resources as independent memory resources (as they
> really are).
> 
> The only drawback with this approach is the breakage of devicetree backwards
> compatibility such change produces. This is an important issue, and the main
> reason I'm submitting this patchset: Is it possible to introduce such
> DT-binding change?
> 
> It's worth noting that a similar was proposed in July-15th [1], which received
> some acceptance [2].
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/183628.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/183857.html

Well, my point was that *if* it needed to be broken, now was the best
time to do it.

Please see my other reply for current thoughts.

thx,

Jason.