[PATCH V3] Watchdog: Fix parent of watchdog_devices

Charles Keepax ckeepax at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Sep 2 02:39:24 PDT 2015


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:58:24AM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> /sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/device/modalias can help to identify the
> driver/module for a given watchdog node. However, many wdt devices does not set
> its parent and so, we do not see an entry for device in sysfs for such devices.
> 
> This patch fixes parent of watchdog_device so that
> /sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/device is populated.
> 
> Exceptions: booke, diag288, mpc8xxx, octeon, softdog and w83627hf -- They do not
> have any parent. Not sure, how we can we identify driver for these devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
> ---

For the Wolfson parts:

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Thanks,
Charles



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