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

[Andrew Chew]

> 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?

>From what I've seen, timer allocations are just hard-coded into whatever driver.
I didn't think this was a particularly good idea, since when writing other drivers
that for some reason need a timer, the author has to be aware of allocations
made in other, barely related drivers.  In addition, what seems like an arbitrary
allocation in one scenario, I anticipate may not be completely arbitrary in
a different scenario, so I thought it would be better to freeze the device driver
code, and allow for flexibility at the device tree level.

But I'll do whatever others think is right.  I can make my watchdog driver just take
an arbitrary (to me right now) timer and instantiate one watchdog for it.  If I'm to
do that, then this device node property isn't necessary, and we can drop this patch.
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