On Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:05 PM, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: >>> BTW, now that the driver uses watchdog core should we also select >>> WATCHDOG_CORE in the Kconfig? If it is not enabled we get: >>> >>> drivers/built-in.o: In function `ep93xx_wdt_init': >>> clkdev.c:(.init.text+0x2bd8): undefined reference to >>> `watchdog_register_device' >>> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 >> >> Of course. >> >> I wasn't sure how Wim wanted to handle this. I see two ways of doing it >> in the Kconfig. >> >> 1) Each driver config option has a select WATCHDOG_CORE if it is required. >> >> Pro: all the watchdog drivers (that are available) are displayed >> Con: each driver needs to add the select if needed >> Side-effect: the WATCHDOG_CORE option could (should) be a hidden option >> >> 2) Separate the watchdog drivers into groups that need the WATCHDOG_CORE >> and those that don't then put a if WATCHDOG_CORE/endif around the ones >> that need it. >> >> Pro: keeps the Kconfig clean >> Con: the drivers that use WATCHDOG_CORE are not displayed unless the >> option is selected >> Con: defconfigs probably will need to be updated to select WATCHDOG_CORE >> >> Wim, do you have any opinion on this? > > I allready discussed this with Wolfram a few weeks ago. Since we don't want > defconfigs to change, the best option is to: > 1) use 'select WATCHDOG_CORE' during conversion of the drivers. > 2) remove CONFIG_WATCHDOG_CORE and replace it by CONFIG_WATCHDOG in a later > stage so that the core API becomes the user-space layer for all watchdog > device drivers.This so that we can support multiple watchdogs in the > future and to make sure that we keep having a consistent user-space > interface. OK. I'll repost the ep93xx conversion and include the Kconfig change. Thanks! Hartley-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
