linux-next: manual merge of the watchdog tree with the arm-soc tree

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Mar 8 08:06:09 PST 2016


Hi Andre,

On 08/03/16 15:52, André Przywara wrote:
> On 07/03/16 11:04, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Wim,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the watchdog tree got a conflict in:
>>
>>    arch/arm64/boot/dts/arm/foundation-v8.dts
>>
>> between commit:
>>
>>    d11a89796678 ("arm64: dts: split Foundation model dts to put the GIC separately")
>>
>> from the arm-soc tree and commit:
>>
>>    fe3a97e8ed02 ("ARM64: add SBSA Generic Watchdog device node in foundation-v8.dts")
>>
>> from the watchdog tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action
>> is required).
>
> But unfortunately this is the wrong solution. The watchdog DT node
> belongs into the (newly created) common foundation-v8.dtsi, not into the
> GICv2-only .dts.
> So whoever now provides the watchdog patch, can it be rebased on top of
> the foundation model .dts rework, so that the new node ends up in the
> .dtsi file?
> If this is too much hassle I could also send a fix after -rc1 (as the
> breakage is not really critical).
>

I have rebased it on top of my earlier PR and sending it shortly.
I have moved it to dtsi file.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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