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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Aug 27 17:41:21 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 03:02:48PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Since this is so complex, maybe it is OK to abandon support for non-DT
> boards in the WDT driver? Watchdog is not critical functionality, so
> nobody should be critically impacted. Boards would have to migrate
> to DT to get WDT back?

I'm not 100% opposed to this.  We need to give it careful thought, but
it may be a viable solution since we are at the "convert old boards to
DT" stage anyhow.  If we had ten more drivers and 6 release cycles in
front of us, I'd say no.

thx,

Jason.



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