[PATCH v3 2/2] watchdog: digicolor: driver for Conexant Digicolor CX92755 SoC

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Mar 31 08:09:46 PDT 2015


On 03/30/2015 11:14 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> This commit add a driver for the watchdog functionality of the Conexant CX92755
> SoC, from the Digicolor series of SoCs. Of 8 system timers provided by the
> CX92755, the first one, timer A, can reset the chip when its counter reaches
> zero. This driver uses this capability to provide userspace with a standard
> watchdog, using the watchdog timer driver core framework. This driver also
> implements a reboot handler for the reboot(2) system call.
>
> The watchdog driver shares the timer registers with the CX92755 timer driver
> (drivers/clocksource/timer-digicolor.c). The timer driver, however, uses only
> timers other than A, so both drivers should coexist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>





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