Geez, this should have been sent a year ago but it dropped off somehow. Introduce a new user of the watchdog framework. This is a rewritten driver for STMP and imx23/28: Quoting Patch 2/3 for the motivation of a rewrite: === Replace the existing STMP3xxx driver because it has enough drawbacks that a rewrite is apropriate. The new driver is designed to use the watchdog framework which makes it a lot smaller and avoids open coding the watchdog API again. It also uses now an explicitly exported function from the RTC driver to set up its registers (the old driver silently reused the hopefully(!) already remapped RTC registers). Also, this driver is mach independent, while the old one depends on a mach replaced by another one a year ago. Since the user interface is still the standard watchdog API, users don't need to adapt. === The first patch adds an accessor routine to the RTC-driver which can hopefully go via the watchdog-tree as well (asking for Andrew's ack here). It is needed because the old driver silently assumed its IO area to be already remapped by the RTC driver. The second patch adds the new driver, the third removes the old one. The old driver was broken (= not compilable, no arch for it) anyhow, so there cannot be any regression. Based on 3.8-rc2 and tested on various MX28 boards. Thanks, Wolfram Wolfram Sang (3): rtc: stmp3xxx: add wdt-accessor function watchdog: add new driver for STMP3xxx and i.MX23/28 watchdog: remove old STMP3xxx driver drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c | 64 ++++++++ drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 13 +- drivers/watchdog/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c | 111 ++++++++++++++ drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_wdt.c | 288 ----------------------------------- include/linux/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.h | 15 ++ 6 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 295 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c delete mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_wdt.c create mode 100644 include/linux/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.h -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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
