Le 20/01/2015 16:05, Alexandre Belloni a écrit : > 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; I would add also that the registers within the IP are kind of mixed, there is no way to separate by logical functions. Bye, -- Nicolas Ferre -- 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
