From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933153AbaDIMmy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:42:54 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:37246 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932560AbaDIMmx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:42:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:42:23 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: David Cohen Cc: wim@iguana.be, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: intel-mid: add watchdog platform code for Merrifield Message-ID: <20140409134223.6444a598@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1396990744-10695-3-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> References: <1396990744-10695-1-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> <1396990744-10695-3-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:59:04 -0700 David Cohen wrote: > This patch adds platform code for Intel Merrifield. > Since the watchdog is not part of SFI table, we have no other option but > to manually register watchdog's platform device (argh!). Before going too far down that path have you considered compiling in a devicetree instead ? Alan