[PATCH 01/15] watchdog: orion: Remove unneeded BRIDGE_CAUSE clear

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:11:37PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:39:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Dear Ezequiel Garcia,
> > 
> > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:34:25 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > With the introduction of the orion irqchip driver, now the BRIDGE_CAUSE
> > > bit is cleared by it. There's no longer a need to do it in the watchdog
> > > driver, so we can simply remove it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
> > 
> > Is this going to work with the platforms that use the orion_wdt driver
> > but are not using the orion irqchip driver? Take for example
> > mach-orion5x, it still uses the plat-orion/irq.c code and not the
> > irqchip orion driver, as far as I can see.
> > 
> > The orion irqchip driver is DT only, so all of the Orion platforms that
> > have not been converted to DT are still using the old irq code.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on the consequences of this in relation with your patch?
> > 
> 
> Argh, you're right, We've completely missed this.
> 
> And it's a *very* important point because we need this patch
> to ultimately get rid of the mach/brideg-regs.h.
> 
> Quite frankly I'm really out of ideas right now and unless someone
> comes up with a smart solution, I see no other way but to:
> 
> 1. Implement an armada-wdt.c driver and stop trying to fix the world.
> 2. Add some ugly ifdefs to avoid the mach-specific header.
> 3. ?

3. add a handler to plat-orion/irq.c ?

thx,

Jason.