Re: [PATCH 2/7] clocksource: Add Tegra186 timers support

[Dmitry Osipenko]

23.03.2020 16:45, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 23.03.2020 16:42, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 06:38:32PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> 20.03.2020 18:11, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>> 20.03.2020 16:34, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>>> From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently this only supports a single watchdog, which uses a timer in
>>>>> the background for countdown. Eventually the timers could be used for
>>>>> various time-keeping tasks, but by default the architected timer will
>>>>> already provide that functionality.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>> +config TEGRA186_TIMER
>>>>> +	bool "NVIDIA Tegra186 timer driver"
>>>>
>>>> tristate?
>>>>
>>>>> +	depends on ARCH_TEGRA || COMPILE_TEST
>>>>
>>>> depends on WATCHDOG && WATCHDOG_CORE?
>>>
>>> Actually `select WATCHDOG_CORE` for the WATCHDOG_CORE.
>>
>> WATCHDOG_CORE is user-visible, so it's not safe to select it. Any reason
>> depends on WATCHDOG && WATCHDOG_CORE wouldn't work? I guess a dependency
>> on WATCHDOG_CORE would be enough because that itself already depends on
>> WATCHDOG.
> 
> It looks to that should be much better if you could factor out all the
> watchdog functionality into the drivers/watchdog, like it's done in a
> case of MC / SMMU drivers for example.

Also, please see drivers/watchdog/Kconfig where each individual driver
selects WATCHDOG_CORE on by as-needed basis.