[PATCH v3 3/9] watchdog: at91rm9200: use the system timer syscon

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 4 07:08:15 PST 2015


On 04/03/2015 at 06:51:51 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote :
> >@@ -267,7 +276,7 @@ static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = {
> >  	.suspend	= at91wdt_suspend,
> >  	.resume		= at91wdt_resume,
> >  	.driver		= {
> >-		.name	= "at91_wdt",
> >+		.name	= "atmel_st_watchdog",
> 
> If you change the driver name you also need to change the MODULE_ALIAS
> a few lines down.
> 
> But why change it in the first place ? Maybe that was discussed somewhere,
> but not here where it belongs, and not in patch 0/9 either.
> 

That's because it conflicts with drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c

I'm not sure that is relevant anymore as they will only be probed using
DT now.


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