On Monday 07 November 2016 17:12:56 Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 11/07/2016 06:26 AM, Cor Peters wrote: > > Hello everybody > > > > I was looking into an issue with the omap-wdt.c. The watchdog driver not is > > reporting a different boot status when a reset is being triggered by the > > watchdog. > > > >>From what I gathered, the issue is that in the omap_wdt_probe function, > > pdev->dev->platform_data requires to be a reference to the PRM module, > > however it has not been set, and I was wondering how this should work in > > an environment that uses the device tree method. (Link to usage: > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c#L268[1] ). > > > > My questions are as follows: > > 1) Is my assertion correct that the current method does not work when > > the driver is being initialised from an device tree instead of a old style > > board file. > > I think you are correct. > > > 2) If that is the case, what would be the best method of fixing this situation. > > > I am not a devicetree expert, but you may have to define a property to point to > the register and bit providing the necessary information. This could possibly > be done with syscon, but I really don't know enough about it to really know for > sure what the best approach would be. Thanks, syscon seems like a good solution. > Guenter > Cor -- 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
