[PATCH 1/2] ARM: at91: rm9200 add system timer resources to watchdog

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 31 13:57:56 PDT 2014


On 31/10/2014 at 21:50:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> On Friday 31 October 2014 21:45:58 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > To be able to make the watchdog driver independent from the mach/ includes, pass
> > the system timer register space as a resource.
> > 
> > Also, change the name to avoid conflicting with the at91sam9 watchdog driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> > 
> 
> Doing this change as a separate patch breaks bisection because now the device
> name no longer matches untile the other patch is applied too.
> 

Yeah, I was not sure how important that was as there is no user of the
watchdog in the kernel. My thinking was that both patch can then go
through different trees.

I can definitely squash them.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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