Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Add hardware dependency to BCM7038 driver

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Hello Justin,

Le Monday 22 February 2016 à 09:58 -0800, Justin Chen a écrit :
> This driver is based off of a Broadcom watchdog block, it is not tied
> to the MIPS core.
> The watchdog driver is named BCM7038 because that was the first chip
> that featured this watchdog block. Their are other chips that use this
> driver that are not MIPS based.

The Kconfig help text doesn't say this at all. With the current wording
there is no reason why anyone would enable this option if not building a
kernel for the Broadcom BCM7038.

Which other systems reuse this watchdog block exactly? In the kernel
tree I can't see anyone instantiating this device.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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