[PATCH V4 RESEND 1/2] dt-bindings: watchdog: convert Broadcom's WDT to the json-schema

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Mon Dec 6 11:51:15 PST 2021


On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 11:43:31AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
[ ... ]
> > 
> > Your series includes the patch discussed here, and it is the first patch
> > of your series. The second patch in your series depends on it. Are you
> > telling me that I should drop those two patches from your series ?
> 
> No, quite the contrary, I want you to keep the entire 7 patches that
> converted the bcm7038-wdt binding to YAML and get rid of the bcm63xx-wdt
> changes, the branch that you have right now is good in that regard.
> 
> I don't see why you should be creating an immutable branch for Lee and
> not simply merge Rafal's "[PATCH V4 RESEND 2/2] dt-bindings: mfd: add
> Broadcom's Timer-Watchdog block" patch with Lee's ack directly. This is
> a new file, so I don't see how it would create conflicts as long as we
> don't pile up changes on top.

It sounded to me like Lee wanted an immutable branch for that, which I
can't do for watchdog. That means the options are to either drop the dt
changes, or to drop everything until after the dt issues are sorted out.

Guenter



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