Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: tegra: add nvidia,wdt-timer-id optional property

[Stephen Warren]

On 02/03/2014 11:59 AM, Andrew Chew wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:46:51PM +0000, Andrew Chew wrote:
>>> This optional property can be used to specify which timers are to be
>>> used for hardware watchdog timeouts (via a tegra wdt driver).
>>
>> Is there any reason that a particular timer should be used?
> 
> I worry about colliding with other timer allocations, and wanted to be
> flexible in this regard.

Are the other timer allocations represented in DT, or simply made by or
hard-coded in the driver? If the former, this property seems like a good
equivalent of any existing allocations. If the latter, can't the driver
just allocate or hard-code the allocation in the same way as any
existing allocations?
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