On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 20/01/2015 at 09:47:39 +0000, Lee Jones wrote : > > > > This driver looks pretty pointless. Why can't you request the sysconf > > > > registers from within the drivers themselves? > > > > > > > > > > How would you probe the watchdog driver then? Would you had the > > > "atmel,at91rm9200-st" compatible there? > > > > > > At some point in time, we should add the reset driver, would you also > > > match it on "atmel,at91rm9200-st"? > > > > > > I'm fine with that as this allows to avoid the mfd driver. > > > > I'm sorry, I don't follow. Why can't each driver have their own > > compatible strings? > > > > The same IP provides a clocksource, a watchdog and is also the reset > controller. I think that the DT guidelines requires that the DT > describes the hardware and so use one compatible for that IP; Not to my knowledge. There are lots of single chip devices which have multiple compatible strings. What's stopping you from representing this device under the syscfg node? -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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
