Currently there is no way to easily differentiate multiple watchdog devices. The watchdogs are named by the order they are probed. 1st probed watchdog: /dev/watchdog0 2nd probed watchdog: /dev/watchdog1 ... This change uses the alias of the watchdog device node for the name of the watchdog. aliases { watchdog0 = "/...../...." watchdog3 = "/..../....." watchdog2 = "/..../....." ... } This will translate to... /dev/watchdog0 /dev/watchdog3 /dev/watchdog2 v2 Assign alias number to id in watchdog_core instead of watchdog_dev. If failed to get id, fallback to original ida_simple_get call. Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justinpopo6@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c index 1a80594..873f139 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_init_timeout); static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd) { - int ret, id, devno; + int ret, id = -1, devno; if (wdd == NULL || wdd->info == NULL || wdd->ops == NULL) return -EINVAL; @@ -157,7 +157,18 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd) */ mutex_init(&wdd->lock); - id = ida_simple_get(&watchdog_ida, 0, MAX_DOGS, GFP_KERNEL); + + /* Use alias for watchdog id if possible */ + if (wdd->parent) { + ret = of_alias_get_id(wdd->parent->of_node, "watchdog"); + if (ret >= 0) + id = ida_simple_get(&watchdog_ida, ret, + ret + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + } + + if (id < 0) + id = ida_simple_get(&watchdog_ida, 0, MAX_DOGS, GFP_KERNEL); + if (id < 0) return id; wdd->id = id; -- 2.1.0 -- 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