Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Add Congatec CGEB watchdog driver

From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 13:06:39 EST


On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:30:00AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 05:09:52PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
> > >
> > > On a side note, if the driver supports devicetree, it might make sense to call
> > > watchdog_init_timeout, since it initializes the timeout from devicetree data.
> >
> > The driver does not support devicetree.
> >
> I should have said "the system". Calling watchdog_init_timeout is the only thing
> a watchdog driver has to do to support devicetree.

The system does not use devicetrees. I'm very familiar with devicetrees
on ARM, but I have never seen a x86 system with devicetree support
(although I know they exist)

Sascha

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