Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Remove iop_wdt

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:03 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 06:29:09AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 11/19/19 1:40 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:08 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 11/18/19 2:04 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >
> > Good point, especially since apparently no one cared for five years.
>
> Doesn't mean that there aren't interested parties.  I still have
> IOP32x hardware running here in the form of a N2100 (my firewall)
> and it seems that I never noticed this option disappearing until
> now...

It's not that it was ever there for IOP32x: the driver was introduced in 2007
and was available for IOP32x but failed to compile for it until 2014 when
I sent the patch to disable the driver in all configurations that
failed to build.

       Arnd