[PATCH v2 1/2] watchdog: sunxi: support parameterized compatible strings

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Fri Sep 26 06:58:10 PDT 2014


On 09/26/2014 01:29 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> On 09/21/2014 09:05 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch adds support for hardware parameters tied to compatible
>>> strings, so similar hardware can reuse the driver.
>>>
>>> This will be used to support the newer watchdog found in A31 and
>>> later SoCs. Differences in the new hardware include separate
>>> interrupt lines for each watchdog, and corresponding interrupt
>>> control/status registers. Watchdog control registers were also
>>> slightly rearranged.
>>>
>>> Also replace ioread32()/iowrite32() with readl()/writel() in various
>>> places changed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
>>
>
> Hi Guenter,
>
> Are you submitting the restart handler patches for inclusion in 3.18?

Yes, should go in through Andrew's tree or through one of the branches
depending on it.

> If so, are you taking any related patches or patches depending on
> that series?
>
In general no, but I just sent a pull request pointing to an immutable branch
containing the series. Affected maintainers should merge this branch into
the affected subject branch(es).

I do have a number of related patches in my watchdog-next branch. I'll send
an updated pull request with those to Wim later today.

Thanks,
Guenter




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