[PATCH] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Only register for cpufreq on CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 19:16:51 EST 2013


On Tuesday 26 of November 2013 00:08:31 Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:55:37PM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > On modern SoCs the watchdog timer is parented on a clock that doesn't
> > change every time we have a cpufreq change.  That means we don't need
> > to constantly adjust the watchdog timer, so avoid registering for and
> > dealing with cpufreq transitions unless we've actually got
> > CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX defined.
> 
> The S3C2410 to at-least S3C2440 there is only one PLL/clock-divider
> set so changing any part of that can change frequency supplied to
> the watchdog.

And so we're leaving the notifier code intact, just changing the ifdef
conditionm which decides whether it should be compiled in, from a (too)
generic one to an S3C24xx-specific one.

Best regards,
Tomasz




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